817.00/8300: Telegram
The Minister in Nicaragua (Lane) to the Secretary of State
[Received 9:25 p.m.]
99. At conclusion of interview with the President, as reported in my telegram 98 of today, he was obdurate in insisting that our Government has an obligation to intervene on his Government’s side on matters concerning the Guardia. Although I endeavored to impress on him as forcibly as possible our present attitude of nonintervention in Nicaraguan affairs, he refused to be convinced. Under these circumstances, I feel that it would be salutary if the Department would telegraph me authorization to show him memoranda87 of conversations with Federico Sacasa transmitted with the Department’s strictly confidential air mail instruction No. 339 of October 3.88 It would likewise be helpful if the Department’s telegram of authorization should direct me to say that observations of Messrs. Wilson and Beaulac accurately reflect the attitude of the Department. Please telegraph.