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We have seen such material interests threaten constitutional freedom in the United States.

Therefore we will now know how to sympathize with those in the rest of America who have to contend with such powers, not only within their borders, but from outside their borders." In this way General Huerta, who, in his own eyes, was merely another in the long succession of Mexican revolutionary chieftains, was translated into an epochal figure in the history of American foreign policy; he became a symbol in Mr.Wilson's new scheme of things--the representative of the order which was to come to an end, the man who, all unwittingly, was to point the new way not only in Mexico, but in all Latin-American countries.

The first diplomatic task imposed upon Page therefore was one that would have dismayed a more experienced ambassador.