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JUNE, 1914

BY LOUIS C. SIMONDS

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A CHARACTER cannot be understood out of its setting, and the character of Victoriano Huerta cannot be understood by those who do not understand Mexico.

And who does understand this land of endless contradictions and anomalies? I, after a residence here of thirty years, have never answered a question about Mexico to a newcomer or visitor, without thinking a few moments later of half a dozen facts that run counter to the information I have given.

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Nevertheless, we foreign residents of long standing, if we have made any use at all of our opportunities for observation, have at least a synthetic knowledge of Mexico, though, when we try to bring it out in words, we apprehend, at times with too much reason, that we are not conveying to our hearers or readers the exact impression that is on our own minds.

It is one of those cases in which while, when we are asked, we know little, when we are not asked we know a good deal. And to us, thus prepared, the ch