Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1921, Volume I

813.00/1040: Telegram

The Minister in Nicaragua (Jefferson) to the Acting Secretary of State

Managua, January 10, 1921—3 p.m.
[Received January 11—12:20 p.m.]

3. Department’s January 7, 5 p.m.²⁴ Nicaraguan Government the other day sent final instructions to its delegates to the effect that it proposed to adhere strictly to its obligations in the Bryan–Chamorro treaty²⁵ and the other Central American States must accede to this, without reservation for future diplomatic representations or arbitration, before Nicaragua will subscribe to Central American Union Pact. Nicaraguan Government feels that it would jeopardize its interests and would place it in a very false position with the United States to do otherwise.

Jefferson

24. Not printed.
25. Foreign Relations, 1916, p. 849; for decisions of the Central American Court of Justice in the cases of Costa Rica and Salvador against Nicaragua, instituted because of the signing of this treaty, see ibid., p. 862, and ibid., 1917, p. 1101.