Arizona republican., 1913-10-20
Former Ambassador to Mex ico Says Limitation of Patient Silence Compels Him to Enter Solemn Pro test Against Rebuke RECALLS FACT OF
 BRITISH RECOGNITION Accuses Secretary of State With Prematurely Dis crediting Diplomatic Of ficer of the Government, Charging Pique
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 SPOKANE Wash, oct. 19.-The let ter to Secretary of State Bryan in which Henry Lane Wilson rendered his resignation as Ambassador to Mexico, was made public here today by MT. Wilson. The letter was written in In- dianapolis, Indiana, on August 25.
 There is'' he writes just that limi- tation to patient silence that I shall not permit myself to be made a victim of hasty rebuke without placing on record with you my earnest and solemn protest"
 Wilson reviews the circumstances leading to the instructions to the ann bassador in London regarding Lon don dispatch that one of the factors in determining the British recognition of the Mexican provisional president was the congratulatory speech of the American ambassador on the occasion of Huerta's reception to the diplomatic corps" Wilson continues: Therefore with tempestuous haste, apparently prompted by partisan zeal, you dis patched instructions to the American ambassador at London, directing him to apologize for the language uttered by me which was not in the least de- gree offensive and which was based en- tirely upon the assumption that the supposed expression Of the British gov ernment was a malicious Justification"
 You thus hastily proceeded with out ascertaining whether either the supposed expressions by the British government or my comment thereon were veritable, and it has since been developed that your action caused the greatest possible surprise to the gov ernment of Great Britain, which did not know it had been offended. and had no official knowledge of the views at tributed to it.
 Thus, through pique you have spon- taneously and unjustly discredited a diplomatic officer of this government and at the same time have exposed to the British foreign office her spirit of hazardous adventure which prescribes over the department of state and the possibility of errors at any moment in future diplomatic exchanges.
 That the president of the United States, whom I know to possess high and patriotic ideals and whose lofty purposes ought never to be questioned by American citizen, should lend himself to the hasty criticism of an old tried official of the government upon totally unwarranted and since discred- ited sources of information. convinces me that he has been badly advised; and that you, Mir Secretary, who have been identified with the movement for high CT and better things in this country. should, except as a result of careful in Vestigation and calm consideration. find reason for the censure of a plain and truthful statement Of the fact which had to do solely with matters that are of record in the department of state. and probably on the records of all foreign offices. with representatives accredited to Mexico, by assuming an attitude which involves the correctness of the official procedure of a diplomatic officer under your control inspires me with serious doubts as to your future success in dealing with delicate inter- national affairs"
 MT. Wilson next reviews his seven teen years of diplomatic service saving that an investigation of his work will snow that it was in the highest de- gree useful in humanitarian, commer- cial and political ways and that the records of the state department bear ample evidence to the general satis- faction which his efforts won He re- fused ambassadorships to Russia, Aus
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