These are not in the European governing vocabulary.
I have been trying to find a way to help this Government to wake up to the effect of its pro-Huerta position and to give them a chance to refrain from repeating that mistake--and to save their faces; and I have telegraphed one plan to Mr.Bryan to-day.

I think they ought now to be forced to show their hand without the possibility of evasion.

They will not risk losing our good-will--if it seem wise to you to put them to a square test.
It's a wretched business, and the sordid level of European statecraft is sad.
I ran across the Prime Minister at the royal wedding reception[34] the other day.
"What do you infer from the latest news from Mexico ?" he asked.
"Several things." "Tell me the most important inference you draw." "Well, the danger of prematurely making up one's mind about a Mexican adventurer." "Ah!" and he moved on.
Very heartily yours, WALTER H.PAGE.
_To the President_ London, Sunday, Nov.

16, 1913.
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