815.00/2735: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Honduras (Morales)
48. Your November 7, 9 a.m.
The Department does not desire that you should become involved in any way in negotiations or intrigues among the various presidential candidates. In the absence of further instructions, therefore, it desires that you should confine your activities to reporting the situation very fully, if necessary by telegraph, although there is, of course, no objection to your exerting a proper influence in a very impartial manner to dissuading the various factions from seeking a solution of the electoral situation by force instead of by constitutional methods. The Department still desires to render any proper assistance in connection with the present difficulties, if an occasion should arise where its assistance would be appropriate, but this assistance cannot extend to seeking to promote a combination in the Honduran Congress in favor of or against any particular candidate.