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

File No. 812.0/9267.

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

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Guatemala, October 18, 1913.

Your October 14, 7 p.m. President Estrada Cabrera believes Huerta’s action to be that of an unbalanced man in desperate straits and to be suicidal. The President said he was in sympathy with the action of our Government.

Wilson.