713.1311/278: Telegram
The Minister in Nicaragua (Lane) to the Secretary of State
[Received 3:05 p.m.]
91. My 90, March 7, 1 a.m. When I saw the President last evening he told me that he had received (1) a telegram from President Carías indicating no objection on his part to postponement provided Sacasa considered it necessary and (2) telegram from President Ubico to the effect that it would not be possible again to postpone Conference.
Sacasa said that in his telegram proposing postponement he was unwilling to admit that present unsettled situation (that is between the Government and the Guardia) had prevented him from making the necessary preparations. He said that yesterday Crisanto Sacasa had said that he did not wish to be associated with a failure and that he considered it impossible in the short time remaining for the Government to formulate a definitive policy which would be fully understood by the delegates who have not yet been appointed.
The President said that his personal view was that it would have been advisable to send a personal representative to Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala, in the order named, in order to endeavor to arrange an accord with them as to policy.
He said that in view, however, of Ubico’s telegram and of my personal suggestions he had decided to withdraw from his position of advocating postponement and had telegraphed President Ubico to this effect.
[Page 448]He indicated that Nicaraguan delegation would leave by plane March 13 and that there would now be insufficient time to send representatives to other countries.
Repeated to Central American missions.