817.032/100: Telegram

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

53. The regular session of the Nicaraguan Congress, terminated yesterday.

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Department’s air mail instruction of March 22.41 The proposed amendments to the Constitution have not been approved. It did not appear necessary to communicate to President Moncada the Secretary’s informal personal message.

Department’s telegram number 37, April 18 [19], 2 p.m.42 The appropriation for the Guardia is 760,000 cordobas but President Moncada has given me informal assurance that the Guardia will not be reduced in strength and that he can and will make additional necessary funds available as during the present fiscal year. He has told me that he could not insist upon a larger appropriation in the present state of public opinion. The Department’s instruction No. 645, of April 19,43 is receiving the Legation’s attention.

Hanna
  1. Not printed.
  2. Ante, p. 657.
  3. Same as instruction No. 4, April 19, p. 657.