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Rh lake. Arriving in Texas, and looking back upon my experiences in Mexico, I felt that I had had an opportunity of studying conditions at first hand, not, indeed, as they were during the revolution, but as they were then. Nothing, though, that I know of changes like Mexico. What one day is the situation the next day may not exist at all.

In the first article which I wrote for The Saturday Evening Post I spoke of the two policies which faced Mexico: either Mexico could join the United States and the Allies, at least to the extent of breaking diplomatic relations with Berlin, or Mexico might stay out of this league of nations and by so doing give the German propagandists further opportunity of creating hatred, suspicion and fear between Mexico and the United States. In case of the latter event, should it continue long enough, no one can be sure that Mexico, under German influence, may not some day be an enemy of the United States.

That is what I wrote in July, 1917. By mid-November, the former Associated Press correspondent in Mexico City had reached New York. A letter from Mexico stated that he was exiled because he wrote a series of articles for the "A.P.," telling of the campaign which the Germans were conducting, in co-operation with the bandit leaders, to prevent the Carranza government from breaking with Berlin. The letter, which I received, said the correspondent, whom I had met while I was there, was tapped on the