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

File No. 812.00/10011.

The Secretary of State to certain diplomatic officers of the United States.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, December 2, 1913—7 p.m.

To all Embassies and Legations except Mexico, Turkey, Bulgaria, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Siam, and Persia.

The President’s annual message to Congress contained the following discussion of the Mexican situation:

There is but one cloud upon our horizon. That has shown itself [and so on, as printed at pp. X to XI of this volume, ending with]: We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting. And then, when the end comes, we shall hope to see constitutional order restored in distressed Mexico by the concert and energy of such of her leaders as prefer the liberty of their people to their own ambitions.

Bryan.