817.51/2145: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Nicaragua ( Hanna )

37. Your 50, April 18, 6 p.m. The Department assumes that the approval of the proposed budget by the Senate and the President would necessitate the early reduction of the Guardia forces to approximately 1,500 men, as you have been informed by General McDougal, inasmuch as the item amounting to $760,000 for its expenses presumably could not be increased owing to the anticipated absence of surplus revenues.

The Department is sending to you by air mail a copy of its instruction No. 64519 in which its views are fully set forth for your guidance.

Please see President Moncada, or in his absence the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and suggest the advisability of withholding final action on the budget until you have had the opportunity to present the views of the Department as contained in that instruction.

Carr
  1. Same as instruction No. 4 of April 19, infra.