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...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...
...Agrippina" of Mr. Lyman Dudley lacks what so many historical productions lack,--a sense of atmosphere. Mr. Burrows' article on our foreign policy is youthful and sincere, and (so far as it goes) arrestingly written. We prefer Mr. C. G. Paulding's short editorial on the late General Huerta to his longer article. Brief, bitter, and to the point, it reveals, like so much of the writer's other work, a personality which it were far better to agree with comfortably than combat. The only story in the issue--Mr. Dos Passos' "Cardinal's Grapes"--is a light trifle...
...present trouble with Mexico has not yet assumed sufficient proportions to require forces in excess of the regular army and navy. With the whole country decrying war, with Huerta none too anxious for it, and with three Latin-American republics mediating for peace, there is every possibility that it will not assume such proportions. Members of a number of colleges have turned out in demonstrations which are after all but the trappings of loyalty. To be swept by the whirlwind of excitement and eagerness into action, is not necessarily the highest patriotism, if the action is to be so much...
When elected by Congress to his present position Huerta was at once officially recognized by 26 of the 27 states and territories, and he held undisputed power for five days till Madero's death. He has since done his best to pacify the republic, the opposition being almost wholly due to bandits, among whom are the detested Zapata and Villa, and Madero's brother-in-law, Carranza. The country is much quieter now than it has been for some time, and a peaceful election is looked for on October...