817.00/5419: Telegram
The Minister in Nicaragua (Eberhardt) to the Secretary of State
[Received 4:37 p.m.]
86. For White. Legation’s February 17, 5 p.m., and your February 18, 11 p.m. [a.m.].34 The Conservative press is giving great prominence to the plan for selecting a single Presidential candidate. Press despatches have been received stating that President Coolidge, Mr. Hughes and Colonel Stimson had expressed warm approval of the idea and that Mr. Hughes had promised efficient cooperation by the United States.
Moncada and his supporters will presumably oppose the plan because they feel certain of success in the elections without accepting a compromise. The Conservatives’ apparent approval of the idea arises probably partly from a readiness to accept anything which will prevent the carrying out of the Tipitapa agreement and thus prevent a purely Liberal government from coming into power but more from the belief that they can thus place Moncada in the position [Page 469] of blocking a proposal which would make possible the conciliation of the parties and the withdrawal of the American intervention.
- Neither printed.↩