When Franklin D. Roosevelt, as apostle of the Good Neighbor policy, appointed Josephus Daniels Ambassador to Mexico in 1933, the President was highly vulnerable to the charge of not practicing what he preached. At the very least, many Mexicans wondered at the obtuseness of the Yanqui in appointing as ambassador a man who had ordered the invasion of Veracruz in 1914. In that year, Secretary of the Navy Daniels had indeed been the “aggressor,” and his Assistant Secretary at the time had been none other than Franklin D. Roosevelt. How could the norteamericanos be so incredibly callous? As it happens, by 1933, Roosevelt and Daniels had to have the Veracruz incident recalled to them, incredible, in turn, as that may seem. If they had “forgotten” Veracruz, assuredly the Mexican people had not.