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Show revises policy i immhico PRESIDENT'S PLANS TO RESTORE ORDER IN NEIGHBORING REPUBLIC RE-PUBLIC APPROVED. Notice to be Served on Leaders of Factions That Unless They Cease Warring, United States Will Take a Hand. Washington. President Wilson and his cabinet have adopted a new policy to be pursued by the United States toward Mexico. It has for its object restoration of order and the relief of millions of noncombatants from the devastations of Mexico's military elements ele-ments which have brought about conditions con-ditions regarded as intolerable. The president on Tuesday read to the cabinet a statement which is to be communicated to the leaders of all Mexican factions, serving notice that unless they themselves compose the situation, some other means will be found by the United States to bring about the establishment of a stable government In the republic. The statement was approved after prolonged pro-longed discussion. The specifics course the United States will pursue in the event the contending factions fail to agree Is not outlined In the president's statement, state-ment, tout the administration's present purpose is to move moral support to a coalition of the best elements In Mexico and accord the government thereby created iormal recognition. With such recognition would come an embargo on arms, permitting the constituted con-stituted government to receive munitions muni-tions of war to the exclusion of all elements and factions. That the government's policy, if unsuccessful un-successful in this course, might re-Quire re-Quire intervention ultimately has been considered and the intention to insist on a settlement has not been swayed by the possible necessity of such action. In high executive quarters, however, confidence prevails that the expression of the American government's govern-ment's attitude will clear up misapprehensions misap-prehensions as to its intentions that have existed in Mexico and bring about the desired coalition government. govern-ment. The administration's policy is the culmination of several weeks of conferences con-ferences between the president and his official family. |