File No. 812.00/6446.
The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State.
Mexico, March 1, 1913—10 a.m.
59. My February 28, midnight. At the interview referred to therein, Mr. de la Barra informed me that the British Minister had submitted to him certain telegraphic exchanges with his Government relative to the recognition of the Provisional Government of Mexico and that he [Mr. de la Barra] had discovered that the British Minister had raised the question of the Government’s culpability in the death of Madero as a reason for withholding recognition. Mr. de la Barra stated to me that he had verbally resented in the strongest way such aspersions on the action of the Government and that he had left [no?] room for doubt that his action was distinctly disagreeable to Provisional Mexican Government.