The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-04-30
EXP :C7 ed
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DEADl LOCK
Not Believed Huerta
Will Yield.
LIKELY TO ATTACH
MANY RESERVATIONS
According to American Accept
anCe He Must Retire From
the Presidency.

Washington, April 2S.-Reported
acceptance of the mediation offer by
74uerta, even if it becomes officially
son firmed means nothing unless
1Iuerta is ready to quit Mexico and
abandon everything. That Huerta will
make such an absolute unconditional
4-nrrender is uncomfortable in Wash
Jngton.
Huerta may accept the "offer" OF
me A. B. G.. powers of South America,
in order to put himself in the same
diplomatic standing before the world
as the United States, which has ac-
nepted with ,many-reservations. That
Huerta will also attach numerous
reservations is not doubted here.
These reservations on both sides, in
+ne judgment of experienced states.
tnen here will speedily create dead.
lock impossible to break and when
snat fact becomes clear hostilities will
proceed
As the scope of the contemplated
mediation becomes known it is found
that it covers, so far as this country
is concerned the entire Mexican stu.
ation.
1t is not confined to the Tampicc
incident and what followed, but ii
runs backward from Tampico and
touches every other incident since
aIuerta rose to power
Huerta Must Get Out.
This country is willing to mediate.
after practically every demand that
inc Wilson administration has made
from the start is conceded. 1t will
lot mediate, arbitrate or discuss the
question of Huerta remaining in
power.
FIuerta, therefore, stands exactly
where he did year ago or six months
ago, so far as the United States is con.
aerned. He may accept the South
American offer" in order to keep his
diplomatic record straight. But medi.
alton along the lines laid down by the
United States gives Huerta no chance
10 win anything. All he can do is tc
lose.
His only choice is in the manner
Of getting out, whether by a process
On mediation or by force of arms
This being the case, and Huerta S
temperament being we'll understood
here, he is expected ultimately to
choose the alternative of fighting.
It was pointed out in Washington
that just as the acceptance OF the
United States means no yielding
whatever of the issues for which the
Wilson administration has commended
from the start, so will any acceptance
ty Huerta be equally meaningless.
Appear in Peace Roles.
In the meantime, however, both coun
.yies will appear before the world ii
tie light of ostensibly desiring to avoit
war, without abating one whit OF
preparations for war.
Huerta is further taking precau
status by permitting American citi
zens to leave his territory, after his
original intention to detain them as
hostages.
That this was done under heavy
foreign pressure, particularly from
England, is not doubted here
Washington is far more inclined tc
1cok upon mediation as form Of de
lay, rather than solution.
When officials here try to look at II
from Huertas angle, bearing in minG
that the United States has no inten
ton of yielding anything that touches
It's attitude toward the dictator, they
can see nothing but failure.
All ideas that mediation might b.
confined to the Tampico incident ant
rther similar occurrences and to tn,
events immediately following were dis
sirated by authoritative information
aere.