The Bucareli Conference and United States-Mexican relations
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This dissertation attempts to explain the role of the Bucareli Conference in the contest between the United States and Mexico from 1914 to approximately 1930. It arose from an interest in the land and oil questions and their effect upon the relations between a great power and a newly emergent nation. The fundamental problem was to find an accommodation between the demands of the United States for guarantees for the rights of its citizens and the desires of Mexico to assume jurisdiction and control over the resources necessary to develop a new social organization. Attention therefore has been placed upon the genesis of the Bucareli Conference, an analysis of the negotiations of the conference, and the role of the conference in the relations of the United States and Mexico in the ensuing years until the land and oil problems were "solved." One of the major focal points in this study is the question of leadership exhibited by the American diplomats involved. It seemed evident that the character and personality of those involved in this controversy helped to determine the character of the controversy itself. Unhappily, it was not possible to examine the personalities of the Mexicans as thoroughly, and this leaves some interesting questions to be solved in the future.
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