814.00/378: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Guatemala (McMillin)
30. Your April 1, 5 p.m.
Apart from action outlined in Department’s April 1, 5 p.m., you are requested to be particularly careful to refrain from any action which involves interference in the domestic affairs of Guatemala without first obtaining specific instructions from the Department.
[Page 740]With reference to your repeated requests for the sending of marines to Guatemalan ports, the Department desires to remind you that nothing short of the most serious menace to the lives of foreigners resident in Guatemala City would lead the Department to consider such a step. The mere fact of existence of disorder at the capital or other portions of the Republic, would not justify so extreme a measure. In view of your repeated telegrams on this subject, the Department deems it important to emphasize these fundamental principles of policy.