File No. 817.00/1709, 1710.
[Telegrams—Paraphrase.]
The new cabinet is quite to the President’s satisfaction; but he writes me (Oct. 31) in part as follows:
I beg you to address your Government urging that it declare its attitude toward Gen. Mena’s election, for the sake of allaying public apprehension.
Díaz sees in the return of Gen. Emiliano Chamorro danger to the policy of reconstruction, which has really been going forward in the different ministries since their reorganization. Chamorro has not yet paid his respects to the President and is said to be cooperating with the President of Guatemala for a coup d’état within a week. President Díaz believes that recognition of Mena by the department would cause Chamorro to discontinue his machinations.