816.01/13: Telegram
The Chargé in Honduras (Higgins) to the Secretary of State
[Received 4 p.m.]
191. Department’s telegram No. 90 of December 8, 6 p.m. On informing the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the sense of the Department’s telegram he readily expressed his willingness to await the Department’s decision and reiterated that his Government’s decision would conform with the Department’s. He stated, however, that he could not see how the Department could recognize the present regime as he was positive from the information he had received that Martínez had been in the conspiracy for the coup d’état and had betrayed his chief, Araujo. I believe that the majority of officials here, as well as political leaders of both parties, think and feel as he does in this matter.