816.00 Revolutions/56: Telegram
The Minister in Guatemala (Whitehouse) to the Secretary of State
[Received 2:15 p.m.]
3. My 1, January 5, noon. Minister for Foreign Affairs sent for me this morning to tell me that agreement will be reached on Gómez Zárate as successor to Martínez. The Minister saw Araujo last night who gave him to understand he would make no difficulties if Martínez would pay him his election expenses to the tune of about $40,000 as Araujo said he was very hard up. Araujo has had some hope of armed assistance from Honduras but Skinner Klee told him that if he tried anything like that they would expel him at once from Guatemala.
Repeated to Salvador.