816.01/442a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in El Salvador ( Thurston )
132. The following circular telegram to all of the Embassies in the other American republics is repeated for your confidential information:
“The Embassy in San Salvador reports that President Martínez has resigned and that the Presidency has been assumed by General Andrés Menéndez, First Designate.
In view of the fact that the new Government does not appear to have been instituted by force or under the influence of totalitarian elements, the Department does not consider that there is any call for resort to the procedure of consultation with the other American republics as recommended by the Committee on Political Defense in Resolution no. 22. The Department therefore proposes to continue relations with the Salvadoran Government and to make this clear in some way within the next few days.
You are requested to bring the Department’s views urgently to the attention of the Foreign Minister of the country to which you are accredited. The Department would appreciate an expression of his views at the earliest opportunity.”23
- Replies to this circular telegram indicated general agreement with the Department’s views regarding recognition.↩