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Memorandum by the Chief of the Division of the American Republics (Duggan) to the Legal Adviser (Hachworth)
[Washington,] January 10, 1938.
Mr. Hackworth: Summarizing, may I inquire whether the situation is that recognition, however accorded, is required in cases where a recognized government has been ousted by a coup d’état or revolution and a new régime set up contrary to constitutional methods; but that recognition is not required when the government itself has executed a coup d’état, displacing a constitution by a new one, or abrogating it altogether.
Laurence Duggan