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 , Carranza has not been able to borrow a dollar abroad. Our hostility is primarily responsible for all disorder arising from financial difficulties.

Again, our hostility to the Carranza Government has been a source of hope and encouragement to counter-revolutionary plots of every kind.

Our interventionist policy has encouraged American recklessness of life in Mexico, as well as anti-Carranza propaganda and plots by Americans in that country. "I have been advised to leave Mexico, but I intend to stay on and insist that my home Government protect my property and me." This sentiment has been repeatedly expressed to the writer by Americans in Mexico, even by Americans who were engaged in anti-Carranza agitation and plots at the time.

 

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WILSON, DOHENY, AND PELAEZ

Coming down to the situation at the end of 1919, our interventionist policy has encouraged open and armed defiance of Mexican authority by American property-holders, as well as interventionist propaganda in the United States.

Both in their authorized propaganda, and in sworn testimony at Washington, the oil men boast that the Administration is fully informed as to their activities, here and in Mexico, approves of them, and is cooperating closely with them. This is confirmed both by the news of current happenings and by official pronouncements of the Government.

In a communication denying that the oil companies seek intervention, published in the New York Nation, July 26, 1919, and signed "The Association of Oil Producers of Mexico," appears the following statement:

"The oil companies seek only two things, which are recognition of their legal rights, and adequate protection for their men in the. field. In both these contentions they have the support of the Department of State."

This seems fairly innocent until one looks a little farther. We find an admission that the oil companies are supporting a rebel army on Mexican soil, and the following assertion is made:

"Any money paid to Pelaez for the protection of property and to prevent destruction has been paid. . . with the full knowledge of the Foreign Offices of Great Britain and the United States." 