Excerpt from The Political Shame of Mexico In the recent astonishing relations between the two coun tries the part played by President Wilson has been so puzzling and so prominent that the antecedent characters and events have lost something of their proper value. Jus tice to the President demands more than an analysis of his own acts and intents. He received the Mexican trouble, loaded with a high explosive charge, from the hands of his predecessor, and no right judgment of his course can be formed unless one knows the contents of the sealed parcel and how that contents came to be within. In order to re veal this it is necessary to get close to the actual human interplay, beyond the obvious, behind the conjurer, where the eggs are actually broken for the omelet which later seems to come out of a borrowed hat. Keeping faith with facts will involve criticism, implied or open, of the men who guided the devious policy of the United States in this affair, a policy almost invariably honest, almost invariably mistaken, sometimes innocently, sometimes grimly amusing, as destiny or the hidden acts of men determined. The situation calls for an interpreter of facts, for a teller of the story. The difficulties which have beset President Wilson, the problems of the recent past and of the unfolding future, are unsolvable without a knowledge of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.