I am convinced that even Zapata would restrain his followers and leave, at any rate, all foreigners and all foreign property untouched if he were the first to enter Mexico City.
Cordially and faithfully yours, WOODROW WILSON.
HON.

WALTER H.PAGE, American Embassy, London, England.
On this issue, however, the President and his Ambassador to Great Britain permanently disagreed.

The events which took place in April, 1914--the insult to the American flag at Tampico, the bombardment and capture of Vera Cruz by American forces--made stronger Page's conviction, already set forth in this correspondence, that there was only one solution of the Mexican problem.
_To Edward M.House_ April 27, 1914.
DEAR HOUSE:.

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