Many reports have been published during the week of friction
between London and Washington owing to the divergence of British and American policy in Mexico. In a despatch published on Friday morning the Washington correspondent of the Times says that all these reports are mistaken. The United States Government is naturally dis- appointed that its policy of refusing to recognize President Huerta is not approved by Great Britain, but that is a very different thing from quarrelling with the British Foreign Office. It was perhaps an unfortunate coincidence that Sir Lionel Carden should have presented his credentials in Mexico the day after President Huerta's coup Waal, which has provoked particular indignation at Washington, but the stories that Sir Lionel Carden has openly criticized American policy and generally taken up an anti-American position are all apocryphal.
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