817.00/7635
The Minister in Nicaragua (Hanna) to the Secretary of State
No. 970
Managua, November 16,
1932.
[Received November 23.]
Sir: I have the honor to report that in
compliance with the Department’s telegraphic instruction No. 117 of
November 12, 1932, I transmitted the message of the Secretary of State
contained therein to the President of Nicaragua and I am now enclosing a
copy and a translation of his reply to that message, addressed to me on
November 15, 1932.
Respectfully yours,
[Enclosure—Translation]
The President of Nicaragua (Moncada) to the American
Minister (Hanna)
[Managua,] November 15, 1932.
Dear Mr. Hanna: I have read the telegraphic
instructions which you transmitted to me containing a message
addressed to me as President of Nicaragua by the Secretary of State
of the United States, Henry L.
Stimson, with much attention and gratitude. In that
message he congratulates the people of Nicaragua and their
Government for the three successive elections of Supreme
Authorities, which demonstrate the sense of civic responsibility
achieved by Nicaragua, which contributes to form an invaluable
tradition of honest and free elections.
With pleasure I recognize that these elections were held under the
direction of the Department of State and that definitely, in each
one of them, without taking into account the difficulties of the
problems and the procedures employed, the three successive electoral
missions (1928–1930–1932) have carried out their duty in counting
the votes, in the impartiality of the count and in the ideals of the
United States, expressed in Tipitapa, now Villa Stimson, by the present Secretary
of State of the United States of America, Henry L. Stimson.
I am [etc.]
