Office of the Historian

File No. 6369/347C.

The Secretary of State to Ambassador Thompson.1

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]
Department of State,
Washington, December 2, 1909.

Mr. Knox instructs Mr. Thompson that in order that he may be accurately informed and able intelligently to discuss the present attitude and policy of the United States toward Central America, and particularly toward Nicaragua, the following communication made last night to the then chargé d’affaires of Nicaragua is quoted for his information.2

  1. Same to American Embassy, Brazil, with instructions to repeat to American Legations to the Argentine Republic, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay, the American Legations to Costa Rica and Guatemala, the latter to repeat to Salvador and Honduras. Sent also to the American Consulate at Managua.↩
  2. Supra.↩