327.7372 C149 LAWRENCE F. ABBOTT, Esq., President of The Outlook Company, publisher of "THE OUTLOOK," says of this work by Mr. Calero: "I have read with care, and to my surprise with deep interest, the copy of the manuscript you sent me entitled "The Mexican Policy of President Woodrow Wilson as It Appears to a Mexican.' "I say with surprise, because I have read an almost endless amount of material on the Mexican situation. Yet I found this particular review and interpretation of the problem more instructive and illuminating than almost anything else I have read. My judgment is that no man who reads it can fail to understand the main historical points of the present complicated relations of this country to Mexico and the effect which our policy has produced both in Mexico and in the United States. "In spite of its uncompromising condemnation of President Wilson's course, it is written in the language and the spirit of the diplomatic gentleman." The Mexican Policy of President Woodrow Wilson By MANUEL CALERO Secretary of Foreign Relations, and later, Ambassador to the Press of New York FOREWORD. This book has not been written in a spirit of impassioned criticism or disrespect, but solely for the purpose of fulfilling a patriotic duty. As a Mexican citizen and as a man who has had something to do with the public affairs of Mexico, I cannot fail to see with deep discouragement and humiliation the ruin of my country, brought about by a complication of facts in which the government of the United States has played an important part. I understand that it is perfectly proper for me to contribute to the study of this momentous question, when it is considered that in the solution of the Mexican problem the future of my country is involved. I have tried to be impartial. To attain this end I have avoided making any statement which could not be verified with documentary evidence. New York, N. Y., September 30, 1916. MANUEL CALERO. |