817.00/5532b: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Nicaragua (Eberhardt)
86. César and Gomez have told the Department of the difficulties in the Conservative Party and have stated that unless the Department should take some action towards helping the Conservative Party to settle its internal dissensions they fear that a very difficult situation will be created, possibly resulting in abstention from voting and then protest by Chamorro that the decree is illegal and propaganda by him to that effect and hostile to the United States throughout Central and South America.
They have been told that the Department considers that this is a matter in which it can not take any action: that it is an internal matter which must be decided by the Party itself and that the Department can not intervene in any way.