GERMANY'S ALLY AT TAMPICO
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Assurance of the oil supply is simple: Refuse to recognise the de facto Mexican Government as a de jure government and make it plain that none of the confiscatory and retroactive provisions of the "constitution" shall be enforced.
If the "constitution" is enforced, German agents have at least three distinct means of ending the Mexican supply of crude oil, vitally needed in the war. If British and Americans in Mexico are simply protected in their legally acquired rights and properties, by austere demands and acts of the American and British Governments, There Will Be No Petroleum Shortage.
Problem: To make the American and British Governments see it.
