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Show R E P R A N QrWLS 0 N PRESIDENT IS VERY MUCH PUT OUT OVER THE REMARKS OF AMBASSADOR WILSON. Chief Executive Apologizes to Great Britain for Ambassador's Recent Attack Upon the British Foreign Office-Washington. Office-Washington. President WUlson on Thursday night publicly reprimanded Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson for his recent attack on the British foreign for-eign office. Ambassador Page was instructed in-structed to express the regret of the American government that a diplomatic diplo-matic official of the United States "should have been guilty oH such an impropriety." The aotion of the administration here followed receipt of a cablegram from Ambassado Page officially confirming con-firming the dispatch which had quoted a statement from the British government govern-ment that it had recognized the Huer-ta Huer-ta regime in Mexico, along with France and Germany, alter "a congratulatory con-gratulatory speech" to President Huer-ta Huer-ta by Ambassador Wilson on behalf of the diplomatic corps in Mexico City. The official interpretation of the statement here was that Great Britain at the time believed from Ambassador Wilson's act that the United States intended to recognize the Huerta government. gov-ernment. Ambassador Wilson in an authorized interview declared that if the statement really emanated from the British foreign office, it was "a pure subterfuge, unworthy of the British Brit-ish foreign office" and "at variance with its traditions and with the character char-acter it has maintained before the world for two centuries." |