740.0011 European War 1939/28247
The Chargé in Mexico ( Bursley ) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 2.]
Sir: I have the honor to refer to previous despatches which have reported from time to time the statements made by President Avila Camacho and other Mexican officials with reference to Mexico’s participation in the war, and to report that to La Prensa’s correspondent at Córdoba, Veracruz on February 20, the President is said to have declared:
“that every war must go on to its end (referring to the recent declarations of the United Nations); that Mexico is cooperating in the same plan that it has promised to do although the war is receding farther and farther away from our Continent every day and what there is too many of on the battlefronts is men.
“Mexico, consequently, will not send men to the war nor have we received from them (the United Nations) the least hint that we should; our obligation up to now continues to be production.”
Respectfully yours,
First Secretary of Embassy