Mexico under Carranza/Preface

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2840489Mexico under Carranza — Preface1919Thomas Edward Gibbon

PREFACE

How are the people of Mexico faring under Carranza? What is the character of the Carranza administration?

Are our relations with the present Mexican Government satisfactory or otherwise? How have Americans resident in Mexico been treated?

What are the facts about investments of Americans and other aliens and what relation have these investments borne to the country's economic welfare?

How have the Carrancistas treated these investments?

What is the underlying cause of the woes that have beset the Mexican people since they began experimenting with self-government nearly a century ago?

Is there a remedy for these evils—any hope for the future? In the following pages an attempt has been made, after earnest and prolonged investigation, to answer these questions fully, frankly, without passion and without prejudice.

Thomas Edward Gibbon.

Los Angeles, Cal.,

January, 1919.