817.00/3158: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Nicaragua (Thurston)
113. Your 197, September 27, 4 p.m. Department approves your action. With regard to inquiry in last paragraph Department feels that you have correctly interpreted its views and it authorizes you to make the reply which you suggest. It desires that the Marines should avoid any participation which would seem to make them at all responsible for the conduct of the elections, but it believes that it would be helpful to have them present in order to supply you with accurate information about the manner in which the elections are carried on.