. Review of reviews and world's work. ¢ ⢠. â War-About had been recognized as represent-ing the sovereignty of Mexico,it is not conceivable that he could have doneanything else except to request our promptwithdrawal. ^et Carranzas diplomaticnotes were fussy, pompous, and irritating;while our own attitude was open to thecriticism, from the Mexican standpoint, thatit seemed utterly evasive and two countries seemed to be in dangerof a bloody and useless war, in consequenceof a lack of frankness on both sides. Itwas all highly puzzling. The only influ-ences that favored the Pershi
. Review of reviews and world's work. ¢ ⢠. â War-About had been recognized as represent-ing the sovereignty of Mexico,it is not conceivable that he could have doneanything else except to request our promptwithdrawal. ^et Carranzas diplomaticnotes were fussy, pompous, and irritating;while our own attitude was open to thecriticism, from the Mexican standpoint, thatit seemed utterly evasive and two countries seemed to be in dangerof a bloody and useless war, in consequenceof a lack of frankness on both sides. Itwas all highly puzzling. The only influ-ences that favored the Pershing expeditionMere those that the Wilson administrationhad so constantly criticized and assailedânamely, the influences that are guided andcontrolled by those who have mines and in-vestments in Mexico, or other especial rea-sons for hoping to see stability brought aboutby the intervention of Uncle Sam. ThePershing expedition, like the Vera Cruz ad-venture, was in violent contradiction of theMexican policy of this ilOW WAS IMPRESSING THE PEONSFrom the Sexvs (Dallas, Texas) n After the first of June, frictiorj r/i« Guard . -^ , ^ Ordered to nau Constantly mcreased. den-eral 1 rexino, commandmg theCarranza forces in the north, informed Gen-eral Pershing that his men must not bemoved further south, nor yet to the east orwest, but only along their homeward naturally offended the American com-mander, who repliedâas might have beenexpectedâthat he was acting under ordersfrom his own superiors. It was on June 10that President Wilson issued the order call-ing out the militia of every State in theUnion for Mexican border dut). Nothingthat had then appeared in the news of theday, nor anything that has since been madeknown, furnished what would seem to be afull reason for so unexpected and precipitatea call. Everybody in the world, includingthe citizens of the United States, took it tomean nothing else than a decision at Wash-ington th
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