Word: villa
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...approve his support of Pancho Villa...
...approve his pursuit of Pancho Villa...
...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." Today our troops are returning with purpose unaccomplished, leaving their dead and their country's honor on the sands of Mexico...
...June 21.--12.00, Lunch at Harvard Club of Boston; motor transportation to game at Soldiers Field for those who wish it; after game start by automobile for Nantasket; 7.00 P. M., dinner, Villa Napoli. June 22.--Headquarters, Holworthy...
...modern pacifists, our author believes, are the "third party" who can end the impasse now existing in Europe by reasoning with the belligerents. Mr. Ford had that idea--perhaps it would be wise for the next delegation to begin by testing its powers of persuasion on Pancho Villa...