Word: huerta
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Russian revolution is not a Mexican revolution; Lenine as a statesman is the superior of Huerta. He has called your bluff twice, and twice you have backed down. You can not shift the responsibility, Mr. President; Winston Churchill, British Minister of War, declared in the House of Commons on November 6 that "the government's policy is not wholly a British policy, but one carried out in full co-operation with all the Allies, including the United States, who are equally responsible." In the words of Raymond Robbins, "Your policy has resulted not in stamping Bolshevism out, but in stamping...
...regard to Mexico, Mr. Whittlesey again assumes that Huerta could have accomplished the impossible, if only he had been recognized, and declares for "legal insistence upon our rights." But as the New Republic of November 4 puts it: "He (Hughes) says he will protect American property abroad. Will he? Will he collect a usurious loan forced on a bankrupt government? If not, why not? If an American bribes a Latin American official and secures title to some enormous concession, will Mr. Hughes regard that as a right forever bound up with the honor of the United States?" What America wants...
...Mexico," Mr. Paine says. Not to have intervened has meant, we reply, the killing of hundreds of Mexicans, the loss of several of our soldiers, to say nothing of that world-wide disgrace and ridicule which the administration is too brave to mind at all. To have recognized Huerta, however, and legally insisting on our rights, would have probably meant nothing worse than the settling of the Mexican problem months...
...approve his insistence that Huerta must not be president of Mexico...
What have we done in Mexico? Our initial purpose was to befriend a sister republic; we have ended by incurring a hatred which generations of painstaking diplomacy may not obliterate. Our refusal to recognize Huerta, our brazen attempt to regulate) Mexican politics, our bluster at Tampico and Vera Cruz and our subsequent undignified withdrawal, --these are acts which defy interpretation in terms of any national and con- sistent policy. We befriended Villa, we countenanced Carranza, and we failed utterly to protect American rights and American lives. After the massacres at Santa Ysabel and Columbus, we started out to "get Villa...