611.1731/148: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Nicaragua (Lane)
5. Your No. 8, January 28, noon. The Department does not consider that its having furnished the Nicaraguan Chargé d’Affaires for his own information and at his repeated request a copy of Schedule I should have any effect on your conduct of the negotiations. Since direct conversations have now been delayed in starting almost 6 months, the Department perceives no particular reason for delaying longer the presentation in writing of our desiderata. This procedure was followed in each of the other Central American Republics and [Page 788] was only omitted at the outset in the case of Nicaragua because of the Department’s desire not to delay the opening of direct conversations.