Recognition of Mexico by the United States, long despaired of, became a live possibility when Mr. Secretary Hughes announced that a joint Mexican-American commission would soon meet in Mexico City to reach " a mutual understanding."
Each nation will have two commissioners. The Americans have been chosen: Charles D. Warren, recent Ambassador to Japan, and John Barton Payne, head of the American Red Cross.
The trouble between the two countries centers in the Mexican Constitution of 1917, which asserts that the subsoil wealth of Mexico belongs to the state. This invalidates American property rights...
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