Office of the Historian

814.00/447: Telegram

The Minister in Guatemala (McMillin) to the Secretary of State

Guatemala, April 24, 1920—5 p.m.
[Received April 26—12:19 a.m.]

82. Department’s 39, April 16, 6 p.m. The time not yet opportune to make suggestions looking to Cabrera’s leaving Guatemala. Provisional Government is holding him prisioner within the city pending full investigation of his presumably large estate, claiming much [Page 753] of it belongs to Guatemala. They fear public wrath if he is permitted to leave. There are reports he will be tried for crime, but nothing positive. City and country rapidly approaching normal.

McMillin