File No. 763.72/3438
The Minister in Nicaragua (
Jefferson) to the Secretary of State
No. 339
Managua,
February 9, 1917.
[Received March 6]
Sir: In accordance with the Department’s
telegraphic circular instruction of February 3, 1917, relative to
the break in diplomatic relations between the United States and
Germany, I have the honor to report that immediately upon receipt of
the same I transmitted a note to the Minister for Foreign Affairs,
F. O. 181, of February 4, 1917, a copy of which I am herewith
enclosing.2 I
also have the honor to enclose a copy and translation of the reply
of the Foreign Office thereto.
I have [etc.]
[Enclosure—Translation—Extract]
The Nicaraguan Minister of Foreign
Affairrs (
Urtecho) to the American Minister (
Jefferson)
Managua,
February 5,
1917.
Mr. Minister: I have the honor to
acknowledge the receipt of your attentive communication of
yesterday, in which by instructions from the Department of State
you are pleased to give to my Government the important
information which I have immediately delivered to His Excellency
the President of the Republic.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[Page 238]
On taking due consideration of the important thoughts which I
have been permitted to repeat herewith exactly, it is my duty to
present to your excellency the profound sorrow which such
deplorable circumstances have caused my Government, and its firm
hope that the course of the developments in relation to that set
forth by the Department of State in the esteemed note of your
excellency, to which I am now replying, may be thus, and not
otherwise, that it may be in accord with the great principles of
humanity and justice, and of guaranty and respect for the rights
of neutrals, in accordance with the well known doctrine observed
and firmly maintained by the illustrious Government of your
excellency, always animated by the most sane and generous
propositions in favor of universal peace.
I take this opportunity to extend the fervent wishes of my
Government for the unalterable peace and increasing prosperity
of the United States of America, and to reiterate [etc.]
