Walter H. Page'' it is stated that there had been ''sanguinary scenes in Mexico which, for generations, bad accompanied changes in the government of that distracted country." In 1913 the President and the executive were virtually imprisoned in the capital. The militarists then turned on the Government, murdered President Madero, and the Presidency was seized by General Huerta. Such action was not uncommon in Mexico or in other Central or South American states, and they had been generally accepted by the other Powers of th: world as nothing out of the common. When any such- revoltitions took place all that the other Powers asked was that the lives and properties of their nationals should respected.
Now, if we study the conditions existing at the time of the Huerta rebellion we.will find that they were not dissimilar from those prevail-
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