Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 817.51/499.

The American Minister to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Managua, September 14, 1912.

There is urgent need of money to pay troops and meet other legitimate expenses necessarily incurred in putting down disorders. But recourse to internal loans would be decidedly unpopular and inadvisable. Therefore I strongly recommend that bankers advance additional sums on equitable terms for at least three months, during which normal conditions will probably be established.

Weitzel.