He now proposed that President Wilson should take up the broken threads of the rapprochement and attempt to bring them together again.

From this, as will be made plain, the plan developed into something more comprehensive.

Page's ideas on the treatment of backward nations had strongly impressed both the President and Colonel House.

The discussion on Mexico which had just taken place between the American and the British Governments seemed to have developed ideas that could have a much wider application.

The fundamental difficulties in Mexico were not peculiar to that country nor indeed to Latin-America.