817.24/4
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Salvador (Schuyler)
Sir: The receipt is acknowledged of your telegram of November 22, 1921, 8 p.m.14 in which you refer to the report that the United States Government had sold certain arms and ammunition to the Government of Nicaragua. In reply you are informed that the War Department, acting upon the recommendation of the State Department, [Page 570] has sold to Nicaragua ten thousand rifles, fifty machine guns, and other military supplies for the equipment of the Nicaraguan army. The Department is informed that Nicaragua did not possess a sufficient amount of military equipment to enable the Government to cope with the revolutionary activities which have recently been carried on in that country. It was therefore felt desirable that that Government should be rendered this assistance in placing itself in a position to maintain order and to uphold the duly constituted authority.
I am [etc.]
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