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42 United States also should see it, and demand that government and business cooperate and that Mexico and the United States be mutually helpful.

We have no right to strike down the governments of Mexico one after another and refuse to the government and people financial, business, and political assistance.

The only assistance the people of Mexico have had from the United States has been business assistance in railroad, mining, and oil development.

Is it any wonder that Mexico reaches out for national assistance, first to Japan and lastly to Germany? Since returning, I have had confirmation from European sources of the report that two large deposits of German money have been made for the account of Carranza. This does not mean war upon the United States by the people of Mexico.

It is difficult to predict regarding Germany. I saw the German war machine after Sedan and Gravelotte. I visited the country a few years ago and printed that Germany was preparing for a European war and to strike both Russia