817.00/4749: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Nicaragua (Eberhardt)
83. For Stimson: Your telegram 121, May 3, 2 p.m. Should the peace proposals of the Constitutional Government be rejected by the revolutionists, the negotiations suspended, and the United States obliged to resort to forcible disarmament, the United States would not stand committed even to supervise the elections of 1928. Such is the understanding here.
[Page 337]If you concur, this point should possibly be made clear to the representatives of Sacasa since they may think they can count upon obtaining through the Government of the United States the same guarantees after bringing about a forcible disarmament as they might obtain if they made peace now. If these negotiations fail, it is the feeling of the Department that there should be no implied commitments as a result, and that the United States should be absolutely free to determine its policy as if there had been no negotiations.