839.00/3035: Telegram
The Minister in the Dominican Republic (Young) to the Secretary of State
[Paraphrase]
Santo
Domingo, February 28,
1927—5 p.m.
[Received 7:15 p.m.]
[Received 7:15 p.m.]
20. President Vasquez is considering plan for lengthening his term of office to six years and Senator Alfonseca1 is supporting the project. As I am without instructions from the Department I shall limit my action to informal representations making our attitude clear but not committing us thereby to a position which we might not be able to maintain.
Young
- Leader of the Partido Nacional, which united with the Partido Progresista in 1924 to elect President Vasquez; see Foreign Relations, 1924, vol. i, p. 618 ff.↩