817.00/5305: Telegram
The Chargé in Nicaragua (Munro) to the Secretary of State25
[Received 2:45 p.m.]
46. Yesterday I saw Chamorro at his request. I again made clear to him the unalterable intention of the Department that the election should be conducted according to the agreement between the Governments. He asserted that he had not changed his position. Nevertheless, he gave me the impression that he was seeking a dignified way out; also, that he has no real intention of permitting the Conservative Party to abstain from the election. After consulting with General McCoy, I considered it better not to read the Department’s telegram No. 24, January 21, 1 p.m., to Chamorro at this time, but I told him something of its contents. I read the first part of the telegram to President Diaz.
- Repeated by the Department to the chairman of the American Delegation to the Sixth International Conference of American States, for White, as telegram No. 20.↩