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Show 22 repercussions were great.7 The United States, William Howard Taft, President of the United the plied with Madero's plea of arms the this by resorting instated arms The an a the parties within to weakness the to or American Ambassador to Mexico,9 as the increased. to this It is term of interference the United States a Taft accomplished that Congress re loss only alarm shown by lead lives sma LL the many, of Henry Lane of American reflected in the American press, down. office, whether could country.8 revolution-torn effectively put to uprisings that plagued his own shipments flock of enemies that Joint Resolution from of Madero inability com law which in effect gave him power to stop all old shipments to the to Mexican President. new in States, that America shut. off all from the Unted States sprang up around in affairs recognition after D{az fled. Madero Mexico, promptly granted interested vitally to to his due Wilson, the' concern in and property the American that attention ml,lst public, now be turned. The press generally held Mexico must be put out quickly, for the consequences 7Howard bridge: Harvard 8B ems, that or the conflagration in that nation would suffer the continl,led violence and banditry. Three Cline, The United States and Mexico (Cam University Press, 1953), pp. 212-224. F. . 9Charles cit., pp. 171-172. Curtis Cumberland, The Mexican Revolution: Under Madero (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1952), 257-258. . GeneSLS pp. op. |
