816.00/856: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Guatemala (Whitehouse)
10. Reference telegram No. 58, March 11, 2 p.m. to the Department from Legation at San Salvador, which was repeated for your information.
The Department feels that any attempt to intervene in Salvadoran affairs through an effort to bring about the appointment of any particular person as first designate who would succeed to the presidency would be entirely unjustifiable. Such action, moreover, would appear to be contrary to the provisions of Article 14 of the General Treaty of Peace and Amity of 1923, which provides that each of the Governments of the Republics of Central America agrees not to intervene under any circumstances, directly or indirectly, in the internal political affairs of any other Central American Republic.
As you will have noted from McCafferty’s 57, March 8, 4 p.m., to the Department, it would appear that Martínez is now convinced that he cannot obtain recognition from the other Central American states nor from the United States, and that it is therefore probable that he will resign the presidency outright within a short time, thus permitting the necessary steps to be taken by Salvador itself to place its Government on a basis where recognition can be extended to it.
You may in your discretion make such oral and discreet use of the foregoing as you judge advisable in conversation with President Ubico.