The financial pressure on Mexico will be increased if necessary,
without resorting to the ultimate step of invasion, by blockading the ports. When General Huerta has been "eliminated" the United States will try to find a President acceptable to both factions. He would take up office "under the protection of the United States." This protection is no doubt regarded as a temporary expedient, especially as President Wilson states that in no event would any more territory be added to the United States; but protection only too easily becomes "a Protectorate," and a troublesome Protectorate, where continual control is necessary, differs from an annexed country in a purely nominal sense. It is said that there is disunion in the Huerta Government. Perhaps it is for this reason that President Wilson expresses a new hopefulness. We have discussed the crisis at length elsewhere.
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