817.1051/239: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Nicaragua (Eberhardt)

12. Your 27, January 23, 1 p.m. You may inform President Moncada that the Department feels that the enactment without any amendments whatever of the law establishing the Guardia Nacional is of vital importance for the welfare and future peace and prosperity of Nicaragua, and add that the Department feels confident that President Moncada can and will effect the passage of this law at an early date.

You may say further that the Department sees no good reason for the re-establishment of the Hacienda Guards, and feels very strongly that such action would be prejudicial to the best interests of the country. It would, furthermore, be contrary to the expressed views of President Moncada himself that order should be maintained throughout the country only by a nonpartisan constabulary under American leadership.

Kellogg