312.1722 Sandino/4: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Honduras (Summerlin)25
30. Your 35, April 10, noon. In response to a telegram from Ambassador Morrow in Mexico reporting that Sandino had requested asylum in Mexico, the Department replied that the Government of Mexico in accordance with the general principles of international law would be entirely within its rights in affording such asylum, but that it would, of course, assume a moral responsibility by so doing to make sure that Sandino should not use Mexico as a base for operations against the Government of Nicaragua. Ambassador Morrow was authorized to convey this opinion to President of Mexico.
Accordingly, if your opinion should be requested, you may very informally indicate to the Honduran authorities that the Government of the United States will interpose no objection to the transit of Sandino from Nicaragua to Mexico.
Repeat your telegram to El Salvador and Guatemala.
- Substance repeated on same date to Nicaragua as No. 50, to El Salvador as No. 8, and to Guatemala as No. 15.↩