Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1914-05-01
LIKELY TO ATTACH
MANY RESERVATIONS
According to American Accept
ance He Must Retire From
the Presidency.

Washington, April 28.-RepOrted
acceptance of the mediation offer by
Huerta, even if it becomes officially
confirmed, means nothing unless
Huerta is ready to quit Mexico and
abandon everything. That Huerta will
make such an absolute unconditional
surrender is inconceivable in Wash
ington.
Huerta may accept the "0ffer" OF
the A. B. C. powers of South America,
in order to put himself in the same
diplomatic standing before the world
as the United States, which has &C
copied with many-reservations. That
Huerta will also attach numerous
reservations is not doubted here.
These reservations on both sides, in
the judgment of experienced states
men here will speedily create dead
lock impossible to break and when
that fact becomes clear h0stilities 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
alton.
1t is not confined to the Tampico
incident and what followed, but it
runs backward from Tampico and
touches every other incident since
IIuerta rose to power.
Huerta Must Get Out. 49,. :
/ This country is willing to mediate;
after practically every demand that
the Wilson administration has made
from the start is conceded. It will
not mediate, arbitrate or discuss the
question of Huerta remaining in
power.
where he did year ago or six months
ago, so far as the United States is con.
cerned. 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
to win anything. All he can do is to
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 well understood
here, he is expected ultimately to
choose the alternative of fighting.
1t 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 contended
from the start, so will any acceptance
by Huerta be equally meaningless.
Appear in Peace Roles.
In the meantime. however, both coun-
tries will appear before the world in
the light of ostensibly desiring to avoid
war, without abating one whit on
preparations for war.
:Huerta is further taking precau-
lions to preserve his international
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 to
look upon mediation as a form of de-
lay, rather than a solution.
When officials here try to look at it
from Huerta's angle, bearing in mind
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 be
confined to the Tampico incident and
other similar occurrences and to the
events Immediately following were dis.
sipated by authoritative information
here.