File No. 812.00/9463.
The American Minister to Panama to the Secretary of State.
Panama, October 18, 1913.
Sir: Referring to the Department’s telegram of October 14, 1913, 7 p.m., and amplifying the Legation’s telegram of October 16, 1913, 10 a.m., in response thereto, I have the honor to report to the Department that said telegram was duly repeated as directed and that I communicated same promptly to President Porras and the Acting Secretary of Foreign Affairs. President Porras frankly and emphatically expressed his horror at the conditions in Mexico and his conviction that an election held under the circumstances now existing there would not be fair or valid or worthy of being countenanced. In answer to a question from me he stated that the Department’s attitude toward Mexico, as set forth in the said telegram of the Department was undoubtedly right.
The Acting Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Señor Calvo, coincided with the expression of President Porras.
I submitted the phrase “cordially endorses” used in the Legation’s telegram of October 16, 1913, 10 a.m., to President Porras before sending same, and he authorized it without hesitation.
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