Even distinguished former foreign secretaries such as Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind might be forgiven for having forgotten the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. It is a notable document, and not only because it determined that California would be part of the US, rather than a province of Mexico. Its signing triggered one of the lobbying industry’s earliest controversies — telling, perhaps, in the week two parliamentarians were caught in an undercover sting offering to help fictitious corporate interests in return for cash.
即便是傑克•斯特勞(Jack Straw)和馬爾康•芮夫金爵士(Sir Malcolm Rifkind)這兩位優秀的前外交大臣，也可能忘記《瓜達盧佩-伊達戈條約》(Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo)。這是一份著名的檔案，不僅是因爲它決定了加利福尼亞將是美國的一部分、而非墨西哥的一個省。它的簽署還引發了遊說行業最早的爭議之一——在最近上述兩名議員被曝爲了金錢而願意幫助媒體設局的虛構企業利益之際，這件事或許是說明問題的。
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