817.00/4341: Telegram
The Minister in Costa Rica (Davis) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 4—12:15 a.m.]
1. President Jimenez sent the following message to Sacasa and Diaz on December 29th:
“The deplorable situation of Nicaragua profoundly affects the Costa Ricans. As matters are going, the victorious party will seat itself over ruins. If the mediation of Costa Rica were accepted by both groups I would offer it with the understanding that only [Page 823] mutual concessions can bring peace to Nicaragua. If you believe my mediation acceptable upon the base mentioned I would request you to inform me. I have addressed Don Adolfo Diaz in the same terms.”
Sacasa replied as follows:
“I highly appreciate Your Excellency’s message of the 24th [29th]. The Nicaraguan situation which afflicts Costa Rica saddens me profoundly. My persistent efforts for the reestablishment of constitutional peace and order by means of a correct application of the Washington pacts and my telegram to the Presidents of Central America on the 14th of November manifest my desire for a decorous, peaceful solution in accordance with the principles for which the Nicaraguan people threw themselves in the struggle, exasperated by the violence of made [de facto?] regimes. The brilliant victory of our arms at Laguna Perlas does not modify the impersonal criterion indicated and I receive (acojo in the Spanish text) with pleasure the mediation suggested through the noble patriotism of Your Excellency.”
Diaz replied that the Guatemalan Government had offered mediation and that:
“In reply my Government said to that of Guatemala that it was disposed to send to that sister Republic a Legation for the purpose of informing [Guatemala] fully of our actual [present] political condition and to converse in the sense of its generous offer. This point has not been resolved and I therefore feel obliged to await until it is decided in order to be in a position to discuss any other mediation, however esteemed the person may be who has been a party to the new offer.”
Repeated to Nicaragua and Guatemala.