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Rh the governmental departments. One day in July the American commission went to Guadalajara, the centre of the ranch section, with an official escort of Mexicans. After dinner one evening an American asked a representative of the Carranza Government what the revolution had accomplished for the Mexican people. The officer explained what he thought the results of the revolution would be, but the American pressed him for an answer to his original question. Reluctantly the officer admitted that, so far, nothing had been accomplished.

Mexico has reached the crossroad in the path of the revolution. Since 1910 she has had nothing but trouble and although it was not begun with money it has cost the government and the people millions of dollars in gold and property, thousands of lives and the loss of her international prestige which cannot be measured in pesos. Today most of the fighting is at an end. There are bandits in some sections of the Republic, but their raids are becoming fewer each month. Mexico City, itself, is as busy and active as New York, but there is a financial crisis, which, although not evident upon the surface of things, is destined to mark the climax of the revolution.

I arrived in Mexico in July to look at the political, economic, social and revolutionary puzzle from the inside. I saw many phases of it in Monterey, San Luis Potosi and Mexico City, this puzzle which is still puzzling Mexico. I have been