813.00/1163
The Acting Chief of the Division of Latin American
Affairs, Department of State (Munro) to the
Under Secretary of State (Fletcher)
[Washington,] December 23,
1921.
Dear Mr. Fletcher: The Central American
Delegates called on me Wednesday afternoon to leave the attached
memorandum. I told them again that it would be impossible to discuss the
question of recognition of the Federal Government until the situation in
Central America cleared. They said that they had strong hopes of a
peaceful solution of the difficulties between the Federation and the new
Guatemalan Government, but that they were not informed as to the details
of any negotiations which might be going on. The Guatemalan authorities
have made advances to the Federal Council, but they understood that the
Federal Council was delaying its reply until the attitude of the United
States was made clear.
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[Enclosure—Translation53]
Memorandum by the Central American
Delegates
In compliance with instructions received from the Provisional Federal
Council of the Republic of Central America, we wish to put it on
record in the Department of State that the military coup that has
just taken place in Guatemala implies a legal disturbance in the
juridical development of the Pact of San José, Costa Rica, and of
the Federal Constitution, and that we have subsequently received
telegrams confirming the foregoing views.
But, on the other hand, in order to demonstrate the sentiment which
now prevails in Central America, we deem it expedient to leave a
copy of the telegram received by this delegation yesterday from
Tegucigalpa, from the Chief of the Unionist Party, reading as
follows:
“Unionist Party upholds Federation at any cost and begs you
to press recognition Republic. R. Diaz
Chávez.”
