Office of the Historian

852.00/3907: Telegram

The Chargé in Nicaragua (Ray) to the Acting Secretary of State

Managua, November 27, 1936—5 p.m.
[Received 7:05 p.m.]

235. The Minister for Foreign Affairs states that the Nicaraguan Government today sent the Spanish Chargé d’Affaires ad interim in San Salvador its congratulations on the triumph of the forces of General Franco and of the new Spanish government.

Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs states this to be along the lines of Estrada doctrine12 and tantamount to recognition.

Nicaraguan Government states this action taken to show its solidarity with Guatemala and Salvador against Communism. Please see my despatch No. 340.13

Ray
  1. Instituto Americano de Derecho y Legislación Comparada, La Doctrina Estrada (Mexico, 1930).↩
  2. Dated November 24, not printed.↩