816.00 Revolutions/53: Telegram

The Minister in Guatemala ( Whitehouse ) to the Secretary of State

1. Minister for Foreign Affairs2 informs me that Arrieta, Araujo’s3 Minister for Foreign Affairs, has arrived here on behalf of General Martínez 4 to seek a constitutional solution with the good offices of the Guatemalan Government. Arrieta proposed that both Araujo and Martínez should present their resignations and as the present designados’ terms expire February 1 asked Araujo to submit the names of other designados satisfactory to him who would be likely to satisfy also Martínez. Araujo demurred at first but the Guatemalan Government insisted and he is now preparing his list which Arrieta will take back to Martínez.

The Guatemalan Minister for Foreign Affairs is very pleased at this solution and does not anticipate any difficulty in their agreeing on a designado. He will inform me as soon as he has the names.

Repeated to Salvador.

Whitehouse
  1. Alfredo Skinner Klee.
  2. Arturo Araujo, de jure President of El Salvador, who left the country on December 4, 1931, following the revolution of the night of December 2, 1931 (816.01/196).
  3. Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, de facto President of El Salvador.