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The Secretary of State to the Minister in Nicaragua ( Ramer )

52. Your November 20, 2 p.m.

Inform President Martinez, if you have not already done so, that the Department’s offer to pay expenses of electoral experts was made simply in a desire to relieve the Nicaraguan Government of the financial burden involved, but that there would of course be no objection should the Nicaraguan Government wish to pay the expense itself.

Hughes