German Assails Our Policy.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 27, 1913:
Baron Hartmann von Richthofen Condemns a Do-Nothing Attitude.
    BERLIN, Aug. 26.— What he calls America's "do-nothing policy" is criticised to-day by Baron Hartmann von Richthofen, formerly Secretary of the German Embassy in Washington, recently Chargé d'Affaires of the German Legation in Mexico City, and now a member of the Reichstag, on an article in the Zeitung am Mittag. He demands that speedy steps be taken to establish a permanent Government in Mexico, which, he says, is possible by means of a strict closing of the frontier. Revolutions, he asserts, would be impossible without the importation of arms by filibusters, and Provisional President Huerta would find the necessary funds in Europe to maintain his army if the United States would act even in this negative way.
    If America is unwilling on moral and other grounds to give this support to Provisional President Huerta, continues Baron von Richthofen, the Government should announce it openly, but should offer to his successor guarantees for the absolute closing of the frontier to both men and arms. Gen. Huerta, the writer concludes, probably is patriotic enough to retire under those conditions.