. Review of reviews and world's work. d him as head of the de facto govern-ment. The \illa elements were reduced toa state of marauding and brigandage innorthern Mexico. Our abandonment ofthem and refusal to supply them with mu-nitions embittered them, and they sought toembroil us with the Carranza this purpfise the)- were remarkably success-ful because of our lack of a definite p<jlicy ofour own, and our apparent inability to adjustourselves to facts and conditions. Oir Since we had undertaken totm,„tir,ntH guard our frontier, we might have guarded it well. Insteadof which we
. Review of reviews and world's work. d him as head of the de facto govern-ment. The \illa elements were reduced toa state of marauding and brigandage innorthern Mexico. Our abandonment ofthem and refusal to supply them with mu-nitions embittered them, and they sought toembroil us with the Carranza this purpfise the)- were remarkably success-ful because of our lack of a definite p<jlicy ofour own, and our apparent inability to adjustourselves to facts and conditions. Oir Since we had undertaken totm,„tir,ntH guard our frontier, we might have guarded it well. Insteadof which we guarded it badly. The banditattack uplumbus owed itsmrasure of succcvi to the fact that the oflfi-rrrs who should have Iwen on duty were offat another town partaking in certain socialfestivities. To chavr the bandit* acro«« thelinr and piirvir thrrn was v) <? !v proper that nobrnly of trained int , <• wouldpauAe to div:u<M the question. And this wanwhat our vddiert actually did on the day of. <- I ..itlorial NowB Senlce. WU-SOX, AS HE MARC IIKD IX AT THK UKAD OF TUK rRKrAKHDNtSSparade on flag day, JUNE 14 the raid. \\\\t the authorities at Washing-ton proceeded to do something wholly dittcr-cnt. They strained all the existing resourcesof our regular army to organize a militaryexpedition for the invasion of )ns occupied a number of and his appearing and disappearinglittle group of bandits were by tliat fiin*-hundreds of miles away, with inaicessihlchiding places always avaihihle in mountainmazes where the few inhabitants \\ ere \illa»friends. Without the consf-tu and againstthe protest of the goxetMriiriit of Mexicowhich we had recognized, we proceedeil \\ itiia Hritish-like valor and :i Uritish-like ht\i- 14 THE AMIRICAK RFJIKJ! OF REJIEllS
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