A WWI Diary That Never Was

WWI Diary was to have brought you the whole of World War I as it was reported in the papers of the day, exactly 100 years later. For a year I blogged news leading up to the big war, thinking if there was any real interest regular readers would trickle in. They did not. Count: zero. So I stopped blogging the war news. For students of the time, 1914-1918 editions are available on the Web as thousands of individual articles via a Times service called Spiderbites.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Diaz Predicts Peace and Progress.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 20, 1913:
By Cable to the Editor of The New York Times.
MEXICO CITY. Feb. 19. I am confident that the situation is the beginning of peace and progress for the republic. There are great difficulties created by the deficiencies of the previous Government, but I am certain that there will be effective co-operation of all social classes for the rapid re-establishment of peace and the normalizing of public services.
The lives and properties of citizens and foreigners will be fully guaranteed. To this end Gen. Huerta, the head of the executive government, will devote himself effectively, and the General in Chief of the army will cooperate with him. FELIX DIAZ.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Diaz Predicts Peace and Progress.

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