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Administration Will Make no Move
Until After Wilson
Conference.
RECOGNITION IS REMOTE
officials See Politics Beneath Anti
American Demonstra-
lions.

Washing ton, D. c., July 18.-The
administration will make no move
in the Mexican situation and will
reserve announcement of it's future
policy toward the Huerta govern
ment until after President Wilson
and Secretary Bryan have had an
opportunity to- confer with Ambas-
sador Henry Lane Wilson, now en-
route to Washington from Mexico
City.
Upon the advice and report OF
conditions which Ambassador Will
son presents will depend whether
he will return to the Mexican CAPT.
tai. No answer will be made to the
note of one of the European powers
about conditions in Mexico until the
Washington government has had an
opportunity to learn the true state
of affairs in the southern republic.
Administration officials in stating
the facts last night confessed their
embarrassment and difficulty in obs
tanning trustworthy information at
long range about Mexican politics
and its emhemeral changes These
same officials let it be known incl
dentally that they believe the recent
demonstrations in Mexico City
against Americans were fomented
and manufactured by q small group
of Mexicans trying to force the Unit
ed States to recognize the Huerta
government.
Equally artificial, they believe.
were number of other recent hap
penings in the Mexican capital and
it was suggested that some Of the
European members Of the diploma
tic corps in Mexico City had been
led through the anti-American man
Hesitation to believe that the chaotic
conditions in the republic were re-
suits of the Washington sUrern-
ment's failure to extend recognition
to the Huerta regime.
Supported by letters from unof-
fetal sources in Mexico, Washington
officials are inclined to treat the in
formation transmitted by some of
the Mexico City diplomats to their
government, in the nature of i'm
pressions' and not reports of the
real and underlying conditions OF
Mexican affairs.
! President Wilson and his cabinet
have several close friends in Mexico
from whom information has been
coming. William Bayard Hale, the
writer, is one of those who has been
keeping the president informed
about Mexican affairs, but even
these unofficial impressions have
proved conflicting. The varying sit
nation from day to day, the COM
plexites of Mexican politics, the me-
cessity of caution in wording tele-
grams for fear Of leaks--all these
obstacles have made it difficult for
the embassy officials and the con-
sular service in Mexico to describe
conditions intelligibly.
The first step in the policy Of Sc
curing first hand information, 1t was
officially explained, was the sum-
moning Of Ambassador Wilson. Sec
rotary Bryan. 1t was announced,
would be in Washington when Mr..
Wilson arrived, cancelling any lect-
ures that might conflict with the en-
gagement. No criticism is adyanc-
ed here against Ambassador Wilson
Tor failing to supply all the infor-
nation desired by the president and
his advisers, the difficulties OF COM
municatfon being taken in account.
While it was stated reliably that
the president had hoped after per-
sonal conversations with the Ameri-
can ambassador to formulate a def
mite policy toward Mexican affairs,
officials by no means are sure that
these opinions will be crystallized.
as the uncertainty of constant
changes in the situation may pro-
duce additional complications.
The president has made it clear
to those who have discussed it with
him that his mind is open to the
proper time for recognizing the de
facto government in Mexico and
there is no definite determination to
extend recognition after the Octo-
Der elections. 1t is possible that the
United States may await a return to
stable conditions. inasmuch as the
Carranza rebellion according to
state department reports. is grow
ing rapidly and the Constitutional
lists admittedly control SO large
portion OF the Mexican republic.