715.1715/393: Telegram
The Minister in Nicaragua ( Hanna ) to the Secretary of State
[Received 5:33 p.m.]
120. The following telegram has just been sent to the American Legation, Tegucigalpa:
“September 25, 3 p.m. Your September 18, 8 p.m.98 This Government considers it advisable to postpone signing the boundary protocol until after the Congressional elections of October [November], and President Moncada would like if possible to delay any publicity until after the signature. These suggestions arise out of [Page 374] the Government’s desire that the protocol be not injected into this approaching campaign and made a matter of party politics, since such a development would seriously endanger the approval of the protocol by the Nicaraguan Congress. I concur in these suggestions.
The ready acceptance by Honduras of Nicaragua’s suggestion that the protocol be signed in Managua is greatly appreciated here. This Government will prepare the protocol for signature and I will communicate further arrangements in due time.”
- See telegram No. 87 of the same date to the Secretary of State, supra. ↩