File No. 818.00/497
The Secretary of State
to the Minister in Honduras (
Jones)
[Telegram]
Washington,
November 4, 1918, 2 p.m.
Your October 26, 11 a.m. You will immediately inform President
Bertrand that the United States Government has clearly set forth its
position in regard to the recognition of Tinoco and that while it
regrets deeply the unhappy conditions at present existing in the
Republic of Costa Rica it can not approve of any armed activities
such as would appear to be contemplated inasmuch as it considers
that a constitutional and duly legalized government can only be set
up in Costa Rica by such moral forces as can be exerted by the
people of that country.
You will also express to President Bertrand the appreciation of this
Government for his statement that he will be guided entirely by the
advice of this Government in the above connection.
The Secretary of
State to the Minister in Nicaragua
(
Jefferson)
[Telegram]
Washington,
November 4, 1918, 2 p.m.
In regard to a proposition which the Department is informed has
been made to President Bertrand of Honduras by President
Chamorro in connection with revolutionary activities toward
Costa Rica, information concerning which the Legation at
Tegucigalpa states it has sent to you, you will immediately
recall to President Chamorro the attitude of the United States
in respect to Costa Rica as set forth in the second paragraph of
the Department’s cable of June 4, 5 p.m.1 You will also convey to President
Chamorro the
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statements which were sent by cable to the Legation at
Tegucigalpa for presentation to the Government of Honduras and
which read as follows:
[Here follows the above telegram of November 4, 1918, to the
American Minister in Honduras.]
