[The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Burton J. Hendrick]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I CHAPTER VII 25/33
With the President behind me I could really enjoy Cowdray centuries after X had danced himself into oblivion. By the way, Cowdray said to me to-day: "Whatever the United States and Great Britain agree on the world must do." He's right.
(1) The President must come here, perhaps in his second term; (2) these two Governments must enter a compact for peace and for gradual disarmament.
Then we can go about our business for (say) a hundred years. Heartily, W.H.P. In spite of the continued pressure of the United States and the passive support of its anti-Huerta policy by Great Britain, the Mexican usurper refused to resign.
President Wilson now began to espouse the interests of Villa and Carranza.
His letters to Page indicate that he took these men at their own valuation, believed that they were sincere patriots working for the cause of "democracy" and "constitutionalism" and that their triumph would usher in a day of enlightenment and progress for Mexico.
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