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The Acting Chief of the Division of Latin American Affairs, Department of State ( Munro ) to the Under Secretary of State ( Fleteher )

Dear Mr. Fletcher: The Central American Delegates called on me last night to ask that we issue a statement immediately, expressing our sympathy with the unionist movement and our readiness to recognize the Federal Government as soon as it is constituted. They said that such action would strengthen the Provisional Federal Government and would assist it in its efforts to deal with the situation created by the Guatemalan revolution. I told them that I thought the Department could hardly decide its policy toward the Federal Government until the situation cleared and particularly until we knew the attitude of the new Guatemalan authorities toward the Union.

It seems most probable that the present Union will break up as the result of the Guatemalan revolution. Consequently, I believe that we should refrain from any statement of policy at present.

Munro