By quietly "promoting" the same minister to another sphere, several thousand miles away from Mexico and Washington, it was now preparing to eliminate all possible causes of friction between the two countries.

The British, that is, had met the wishes of the United States in the two great matters that were then making serious trouble--Huerta and Carden.

Yet no government, Great Britain least of all, wishes to be placed in the position of moving its diplomats about at the request of another Power.

The whole deplorable story appears in the following letter.
_To Edward M.House_ January 8th, 1914.
MY DEAR HOUSE: Two days ago I sent a telegram to the Department saying that I had information from a private, _unofficial_ source that the report that Carden would be transferred was true, and from another source that Marling would succeed him.

The Government here has given out nothing.