817.00/5204: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Honduras (Summerlin)49
41. The following telegram received from Managua: [Here follows text of telegram No. 388, December 26, 11 a.m. printed supra.]
[Page 452]The War Department has been consulted with regard to Munro’s suggestion, and Colonel Cruse, who is shortly proceeding to Central America as Military Attaché, will be instructed to endeavor to make an investigation at an early date.
In the meanwhile the Department desires you to bring the allegations contained in the telegram from Managua to the personal attention of President Paz and make informal but emphatic representations, impressing upon him the necessity for a more effective vigilance on the frontier and for Honduras to make every possible effort to prevent her territory being used as a base of operations by lawless elements in Nicaragua.
- The last two paragraphs of this telegram were repeated on the same date to the Legation in Nicaragua as telegram No. 238.↩