Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 812.00/8661a.

The Secretary of State to the American Chargé d’Affaires.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, August 4, 1913—9 p.m.

The Department issued the following statements today:

The resignation of Ambassador Wilson has been accepted to take effect October 14. The part which he felt it his duty to take in the earlier stages of the recent revolution in Mexico would make it difficult for him to represent the views of the present administration in view of the situation which now exists.

Ex-Governor John Lind, of Minnesota, has been sent to Mexico, as the personal representative of the President, to act as adviser of the Embassy in the present situation. When the President is ready to communicate with the Mexican authorities as to the restoration of peace he will make public his views.

Bryan.