817.00/5515: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Nicaragua (Eberhardt)
82. The following letter dated March 22, 1928, has been addressed by President Coolidge to the Secretary of State:
“I have your letter of March 22d42 regarding the decree which the Department understands the President of Nicaragua will shortly issue governing the forthcoming elections in Nicaragua, and, in accordance with your recommendation, you may inform President Diaz as soon as this decree has been published that I have formally nominated General McCoy for the position of Chairman of the Commission to supervise the forthcoming elections in Nicaragua, and that I am much gratified at his election by the Supreme Court as President of the National Board of Elections. You may also at the same time say that I designate Colonel Francis Le J. Parker as Alternate to General McCoy as Chairman of the National Board of Elections.”
Please convey this information to President Diaz in such manner as to make it duly a matter of record.
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