817.00/5251: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in Nicaragua (Munro)
18. Your 23, January 13, 9 a.m. Department is unwilling to pass upon question of Medrano’s eligibility under Nicaraguan constitution for election as vice president. It cannot be placed in the position of approving even inferentially the candidacy of any particular individual. Its interest consists in seeing that a fair and free expression of the popular will is assured and beyond that it is not prepared to go. Its statement as to Chamorro’s ineligibility12 was addressed to a special situation and by no means indicates that it will pass upon the qualifications of candidates in general.
- See memorandum by the Assistant Secretary of State of a conversation with General Emiliano Chamorro, October 22, 1927, Foreign Relations, 1927, vol. iii, p. 367.↩