814.00/394: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Guatemala (McMillin)
Washington, April 11,
1920—2 p.m.
35. Your April 10, 7 A.M. With the object of avoiding further bloodshed you are authorized to offer your good offices to Estrada Cabrera and to the leaders of the Unionists and to propose to them that an armistice be declared and that a conference be held on an American warship or at the Legation.
If such a conference is held you should preside and do all in your power to promote an arrangement which shall preclude further fighting.
Polk