Nobody recalls our action in giving Cuba to the Cubans or our pledge to the people of the Philippine Islands.

But there is reference to the influence of Standard Oil in the American policy.
This illustrates the complete divorce of European politics from fundamental morals, and it shocks even a man who before knew of this divorce.
In my last talk with Sir Edward Grey I drove this home by emphasizing strongly the impossibility of your playing primary heed to any American business interest in Mexico--even the immorality of your doing so; there are many things that come before business and there are some things that come before order.

I used American business interests because I couldn't speak openly of British business interests and his Government.

I am sure he saw the obvious inference.

But not even from him came a word about the moral foundation of government or about the welfare of the Mexican people.