710 Consultation 4/7–547: Telegram
The Chargé in Brazil ( Brooks ) to the Secretary of State
834. Embtel 829, 3d.24 Foreign Office released following to press afternoon 4th:
“The de facto government installed in the capital of Nicaragua in consequence of the deposition of President Argüello, which occurred [Page 12] a few weeks after his investiture, protested against the suggestion of the Brazilian Government to the Pan American Union that an invitation to the next Inter-American Conference not be extended to that Republic.
That subject is being discussed by the Council of Directors of the Pan American Union where the attitude of the Brazilian Government was criticized by several representatives.
It should be explained, in these circumstances, that the Brazilian suggestion is based on the circumstance that the de facto government of Nicaragua is not recognized by any American Government, the Itamarati25 having been notified by several governments that that recognition was not admissible.
On the other hand, President Argüello, deposed, took asylum in the Mexican Embassy in Managua, and still is there deprived of means of exercising any kind of governmental authority.
This being the case, there being precedents of Inter-American Conferences at which, for circumstances of a transitory nature, one of the member states failed to appear, because of the lack of an invitation, or through voluntary abstinence, and it being inconvenient to postpone the Conference until the situation in Nicaragua is regularized, one of the solutions for the resulting emergency was not to extend the invitation to that Republic, to which adherence to agreements which resulted from the Conference would always remain open.
Another solution would be to invite one of the two pretenders to the Government of Nicaragua. But, the scruples of the Brazilian Government, as organizer of the Conference, against imposing a unilateral choice on the other Republics are understood.
In consequence the subject was left by the Itamarati for the judgment of the Pan-American Union, whose decisions it will accept, without prejudice to its own point of view in that which concerns its direct relations with the Government of Nicaragua.”