817.00/5345: Telegram
The Minister in Nicaragua (Eberhardt) to the Secretary of State
[Received February 2—1:17 a.m.]
61. President Diaz professes to have received no definite word from Havana regarding Cuadra Pasos’ compromise proposal. I have not communicated it to him because it seems inadvisable to make any move here which would indicate a willingness on our part to compromise unless there is some indication of a change in the attitude of Chamorro and the Deputies. Their attitude seems more uncompromising now than it was a few days ago.
President Diaz and Chamorro had summoned about 50 prominent members of the Conservative Party from all sections of the country to meet here next Sunday to discuss the party’s attitude toward the electoral law. This was admittedly an effort on the part of the President to avoid assuming responsibility for the failure of the law in Congress. While there was a possibility that such a meeting might have improved the situation, I thought it more probable that Chamorro might dominate it and thus succeed in arraying the entire Conservative Party against the execution of the Stimson agreement. I therefore suggested to him today that it would be inadvisable to permit the meeting to be held unless he was certain that the result would be satisfactory and he promised to recall the invitation and instead to confer with the Conservative leaders in small groups and to send them to the Legation.
Repeated to Havana.