823.00 Revolutions/30: Telegram
The Chargé in Peru ( Mayer ) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 30—9:16 a.m.]
170. Department’s 94, August 29, 1 p.m., will be strictly complied with. As a matter of fact I had come to same conclusion after seeing Sanchez Cerro’s decree establishing his Government (see my 161, August 28, noon). On hearing comment on his personality and on realizing that all classes here seem to recall the Leguia regime with such bitterness, hostility, and disgust, that everything connected with it is anathema, in such circumstances there could be no possibility of desire to carry on government as succession to it no matter how practicably beneficial that might be.