815.00/2286: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Nicaragua (Ramer)

5. Reference to American Legation, Tegucigalpa’s telegram to you of January 28, 10 p.m.,3 and to Department’s telegram of January 5, 2 p.m.4 Inform President Chamorro that this Government is unwilling to give any credence to a report that Nicaraguan Officials are in any way abetting revolutionary activities in Honduras. Any action [Page 562] of this nature would not only constitute a violation of Nicaragua’s treaty obligations to her neighbors, but would necessarily be viewed as an act of bad faith toward the United States which has recently provided Nicaragua with large quantity of armament5 in the confident assumption that the Nicaraguan Government would use it only for the maintenance of internal order. The reports received by this Government are nevertheless of such a nature that it feels compelled urgently to request that the Nicaraguan Government make every possible effort to prevent any officials or individuals within her territory from giving aid to conspirators against the Government of a neighboring country. This Government confidently expects that the Nicaraguan Government will show itself able to perform its international obligations to the fullest extent.

Hughes
  1. Transmitted in telegram no. 13, Jan. 29, from the Minister in Honduras, supra.
  2. Not printed.
  3. See Foreign Relations, 1921, vol. ii, pp. 564 ff.