The Morrow Mission and the International Committee of Bankers on Mexico

The Interaction of Finance Diplomacy and the New Mexican Elite

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3604207
AutoresRobert Freeman Smith (0009-0008-9888-4110, autor de correspondencia)
Año1969
Volumen1
Número2
Páginas149-166
Fecha de publicación1969-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022216x00004454
OpenAlexW1966738218
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas19

When Dwight Morrow's appointment as Ambassador to Mexico was announced in September 1927, a Mexican newspaper commented: 'After Morrow come the marines.' To some contemporary observers this may have seemed to present a logical progression of events, but in reality the Morrow appointment was a distinct move in the opposite direction. Top level Mexican officials knew this since they had been involved for several years in negotiations with Thomas W. Lamont of the International Committee of Bankers on Mexico. Lamont and Morrow were colleagues in J. P. Morgan & Co. and close friends. Lamont regularly supplied Morrow with information about the activities of the International Committee, and during 1926 Morrow began to work closely with Lamont on the Mexican question

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