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

File No. 812.00/6149.

The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

[Telegrams—Paraphrases.]

American Embassy,
Mexico, February 14, 1913—11 a.m.

I request immediate instruction as to the measure of control I will be permitted to exercise over the American ships and marines which should arrive tomorrow at various Mexican ports. In regard to Mexico City and Vera Cruz, I recommend that I be clothed, under such restrictions as the Department may think proper, with power to act immediately in crises without further instructions. The situation is becoming hourly more dangerous. The Department should consider, in making its reply, all possible contingencies.

Wilson.