815.00/2725: Telegram
The Minister in Honduras (Morales) to the Secretary of State
[Received 7:30 p.m.]
87. The President sent the following telegram to all the military commandants throughout the Republic last evening:
“The elections to choose the supreme executive authorities will begin tomorrow. I again recommend to you to exert yourselves so that the elections will be held in absolute freedom. As complaints have arrived from certain sections that subordinate government officials have failed to fulfill their duty, please repeat your orders so that all will comply with the law. The free elections of my successor spontaneously chosen by the Honduranean people will be clearest constituent of my policy and the greatest justification of the resolution [revolution?] of 1919.”
The above will be published in the evening papers of today.