This was to persuade Great Britain to retrace its steps, to withdraw its recognition of Huerta, and to join hands with the United States in bringing about his downfall.

The new ambassador sympathized with Mr.Wilson's ideas to a certain extent; the point at which he parted company with the President's Mexican policy will appear in due course.

He therefore began zealously to preach the new Latin-American doctrine to the British Foreign Office, with results that appear in his letters of this period.
_To the President_ 6 Grosvenor Square, London, Friday night, October 24, 1913.
DEAR MR.

PRESIDENT: In this wretched Mexican business, about which I have read columns and columns and columns of comment these two days and turned every conceivable proposition back and forth in my mind--in this whole wretched waste of comment, I have not seen even an allusion to any moral principle involved nor a word of concern about the Mexican people.

It is all about who is the stronger, Huerta or some other bandit, and about the necessity of order for the sake of financial interests.