815.00/2160: Telegram
The Consul in Chargé of the Legation in Honduras (Lawton) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received February 19—12:50 p.m.]
20. The Honduranean Government asks me to communicate the following:
“Many reports have been received by the Honduranean Government of complicity on the part of the Nicaraguan Government in the recent and present revolutionary activity in Nicaragua against Honduras. [It] has been loath to believe these communications but they are so insistent as to compel credence and it now learns that bodies of revolutionists with arms and ammunition furnished by [Page 860] Nicaragua have again invaded Honduranean territory. This provocation has been [so] constant, that the Honduranean Government wishes to clear the situation and would like to know what would be the attitude of the Department of State if a revolution were to break out in Nicaragua or an open war declared by this Government. The Honduranean Government naturally desires to prevent bloodshed at all hazards and would welcome any recommendation or counsel of the United States Government to the end that this friction and trouble with a neighboring republic will be settled definitely and satisfactorily. The Honduranean Government, however, feels that the situation is most critical and worthy of the most indulgent care of the American Government.”