Woodrow Wilson to William Jennings Bryan

Title

Woodrow Wilson to William Jennings Bryan

Creator

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Identifier

WWP18123

Date

1913 October 24

Description

Woodrow Wilson writes to William Jennings Bryan about the Carden incident in reference to Mexico.

Source

Wilson Papers, Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington, District of Columbia

Subject

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924--Correspondence

Text

My dear Mr. Secretary

It seems to me that we ought, in order to be upon sure ground and gather no false impressions, to make immediate and direct inquiry of the British Government through Page as to whether the utterances attributed to Sir Lionel Carden were really made by him.
I notice by the papers this morning that there is some effort to speak of the Carden incident as closed. It certainly can not be closed until the utterances are disavowed or explained. It is a case much more open to severe criticism than Henry Lane Wilson’s utterances, for which we immediately volunteered our apology, even after Mr. Wilson had retired from the active exercise of his duty in Mexico.

In haste
Woodrow Wilson


Hon. William Jennings Bryan
Secretary of State

Original Format

Letter

To

Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Temp00602.pdf

Citation

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924, “Woodrow Wilson to William Jennings Bryan,” 1913 October 24, WWP18123, First Year Wilson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.