New York Times

Contemporary historians still incorrectly refer to the cargo of the SS Ypiranga destined for Victoriano Huerta’s regime as German arms, so perhaps we might wonder what the senior members of the Wilson administration actually knew at the time.   After all, J.P. Morgan’s control of the Hamburg-American Packet Line, owner of the Ypiranga, was carefully obscured for decades.  The actual nature of the cargo, though, was apparently not a complete secret, as is evidenced by this letter to the editor of the New York Times from South Dakota Representative Charles H. Burke, published 14 months after the U.S. invasion of Veracruz: