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    "ocrText": "Momo for Files Cont'd.\nCOPY\nPage 3\nFebruary 25, 1949\nRe: Felix Longoria\nwith Mexico. He pointed out that of course the Mexican government\nofficially could take no position in the matter since Felix Longoria\nwas an American citisen, but that that wasn't the point at allennot\nwhat they said officially but how they folt unofficially would more\noften than not affect our relations with them. On several occasions\nhe told me that although the Meocioan State Department could talce no\nofficial action on the natter that if we could for us to impress\nupon Dr. Garcia of the Ooed Neighbor Commission or upon the fanily\nthat the state Department was interested in seeing the funoral held in\nArlington becaupe of the salutary effect it would have on the whole\nmatter.\nIn every conversation we had with Mr. Reveley, he was extreuely\ncomplimentary of the action talcen by the Senator and said he folt\nthough that the problem was nuch larger than a personal one between\nMra. Longoria and the town of Three it had become an\ninternational incident, which we should wateh very carefully in\norder that our relations with Mexico not be hindered.\nMr. Reveley was at the funeral, along with irr. Sierra, First Secretary\nof the Mexican Embassy, with a Mexican Army Official and a Mexican\nNaval official attached to the Timbassy, who brought a huge wreath\nfrom the Anbassador. Also present at the faneral wa Major Oeneral\nHarry Vaughn, Aide to the President of the United States, who had\ncalled Senator Johnson on his own initiativo stating that he wished\nto be present at the burial representing the President of the United\nStates and ask that we keep hin informed as to the date, to.\nYesterday, February 214, I talicod to Mr. Reveloy again, who was very\ninterested in the impending investigation in the Taxas legislature.\nHe had received a clipping about 1b. I asiced him at that time\nwhother or not the incident had delayed, stopped or interrupted our\nnegotiations on the Agroement\" with Maxico. He said, *Wait\na talk to one of the nen who was in Mexico negotiating\nthe agreement\" (I believe his name is Wilson). Mr. Reveley came\nback to the phone and he Baid that he could not say that the incident\nhad delayed, interrupted or stopped our negotiations but that notwith-\nstanding the arrangements which had been made for the burial the\nincident had naturally *complicated\" the nagotiations. de went on\nto say that if the arrangenents which vere made for the burial had\nnot been mada then the anawer to my question might be entiroly\ndifferent. He and fortunately that the arrangements to bury Folix\nLongoria in Arlington Cemetery had a most salutary effect on the whole\nincident and that those arrangements had been published (as a result of his\ntalk to Ambassador Thurston and Ambassador De La Colino's talk to his\nlinister of State) in the Mestican newrepapers before the negotiations had\nbegun.\nJohn Be Connally\n[6 of 9]"
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