british-mexican

Updated: June 11, 2025

If the British Government had ransacked its diplomatic force to find the one man who would have been most objectionable to the United States, it could have made no better selection. The President and Mr. Bryan were pretty well persuaded that the "oil concessionaires" were dictating British-Mexican policy, and this appointment translated their suspicion into a conviction.

Burton Jesse Hendrick - The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I