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Show BRITISH ISSUE I STRONG WARNING I If I H Significant Comment in Gov ernment Organ Reminds ' Huerta of English Attitude. H RECOGNIZED RECALL Dictator May Find Diplomacy I I Has Variety of Means at I Disposal. ' London, .Nor. 11 A significant warning to President Huerta was Issued Is-sued today by the Westminster Ga- II zelte, the government newspaper. j j H Commenting on Premier Asquith's "Cuild Hall speech." in which he riii.de it plain that no antagonism j t exists between England and the I United States in regard to Mexico, the Gazette says. I "The idea that any valid election In the sense in which democratic or constitutional countries under- 1 j tand the word can be held in Mex-! Mex-! Ico, is probably a diplomatic fiction, but the electoral test was of General Huerta's own choosing and It is well iHB to keep him reminded that his failure "H to conform to its result leaves all 4. governments free to reconsider their act of recognition. "Briefly the limits of British ac- jfl I tion are that the British government j shonld not put Itself in a position of I ! making protests which in default of forcible action might be flouted and H defied. But diplomacy has other I resources than mere force and pro- f lslonal President iluerta may easily find that the attitude of this coun- 1 try is in a variety of ways a matter I of great moment to him " r |