Office of the Historian

812.00Sonora/521: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Vice Consul at Agua Prieta (Jones)

Washington, April 3, 1929—7 p.m.

Department has received your report on political situation in your district dated March 14, mailed March 21.37

While Department desires that you report facts regarding conditions in your district regardless whether such facts redound to credit of Federals or rebels, your attention is invited to the fact that this Government maintains diplomatic relations with the present constituted Government of Mexico, that it has authorized the sale of arms and munitions to that Government, that it is permitting the exportation of arms and munitions to Mexico in favor of that Government but does not permit rebel forces to acquire arms and munitions in the United States and that it has not recognized belligerency of the insurrectionists. Your attitude will be guided accordingly and you will exercise caution so that no action on your part may be construed as recognizing the belligerency of rebel forces. Refer to last paragraph Department’s telegram to Guaymas repeated to you in Department’s telegram of March 29, 4 [6] p.m.38

Stimson
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. See telegram No. 217, March 29, 6 p.m., to the Ambassador in Mexico, p. 373, which was repeated to the Vice Consul at Agua Prieta, the last paragraph reading: “You will be guided by the same instructions should occasion for representations arise.” (813.00 Sonora/464)↩