File No. 812.00/12759.
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Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith
translated copies of a communication received from Señor Isidro Fabela,
Acting Secretary of Foreign Relations for General Venustiano Carranza,
the First Chief of the Constitutionalist Army. This translation is from
an acknowledgment of my communication transmitting Department’s
telegraphic instruction dated July 23, 1914, 5 p.m., in which, by
direction of the President, the Secretary of State sent a communication
to me to be communicated to General Carranza.
I have [etc.]
[Inclosure—Translation.]
Foreign Office,
Tampico,
July 27, 1914.
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your note of the 24th
instant addressed to the First Chief of the Constitutionalist Army.
Mr. Venustiano Carranza is grateful to his excellency Secretary
Bryan for his good wishes for the welfare of this country, taking
into account the circumstances that envelop us.
He also appreciates the interest the Government of the United States
has shown in the prompt termination of our civil war and the
reestablishment of a constitutional government and peace in the
Mexican Republic.
Referring to the first point in the note to which I have the honor of
referring, you may tell Mr. Bryan that the lives and properties of
foreigners will be protected in the future as they have been in the
past, by the Constitutionalist authorities. At the same time I will
tell you that all contracts and obligations assumed by a legitimate
government in Mexico will be respected.
As far as the other points covered by your note are concerned, I am
pleased to say that the First Chief will take them into
consideration for careful study. They will be decided according to
the best interests of justice and our national interests.
I avail [etc.]
