AMERICAN-MEXICAN DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—For the sake of accuracy—if for that only—Mr. Wrench will, I feel sure, welcome a correction of his statement in the " English Speaking World " notes published in the Spectator of September 8th, that prior to the recent recognition by the United States of the Government of this republic there had been " a diplomatic break of nine years " in American- Mexican relations. As a matter of fact, the break was one of but a little over three years—viz., from May, 1920, to the present month (September).
There have in this decade been two periods of American non-recognition. The former one dated from the assassination of President Madero, in 1913, to September of 1915, when Mr. Wilson recognized the de facto Government of Senor Venns- tiano Carranza. This recognition was confirmed in the following year, when Carranza became the constitutional President of Mexico, and was continued uninterruptedly until the revolution which deposed him and caused his death in May, 1920. Was not Mr. Wrench thinking of Anglo-Mexican relations ? It is the British Government who have had no diplomatic relations with Mexico for nine years.—I am, Sir, &c., W. E. LLOYD. Calle Arles, No. 0, Tuxpam, Estado de Veracruz, Mexico.
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