711.1712Anti-War/3
The Minister in Nicaragua (Eberhardt) to the Secretary of
State
Managua, September 4,
1928.
[Received September 24.]
No. 789
Sir: I have the honor to report that the
Department’s circular telegram of August 27th, 1 P.M.,46 stating that the Treaty for the
Renunciation of War had been signed on that date was received at
this Legation late in the evening of the same day. The note referred
to in the Department’s circular telegram of August 16th, 12
midnight, was duly handed to the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs
on August 28th. I have the honor to transmit herewith the Nicaraguan
Government’s reply dated August 30th.
It will be noted that this reply states that the Nicaraguan
Government adheres gladly to the Treaty referred to although this
adherence is ad referendum pending the
constitutional approval of the Congress. I understand, however, that
the Government is now preparing a formal Presidential decree
providing for the adherence of
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Nicaragua to the Treaty and that this decree
will be issued in the near future.47 I have therefore refrained from
advising the Department by telegraph of the attitude of the
Government pending the issuance of this decree.
The Nicaraguan Government had at first intended to propose to the
Congress at its next session that Nicaragua adhere to the Treaty in
order that definite final action might be taken at that time. Upon
learning from cabled press despatches, however, that the majority of
the other Governments of the world were adhering to the Treaty at
once the Nicaraguan Government decided to take immediately such
action as lay within the province of the Executive.
I have [etc.]
For the Minister:
Dana G.
Munro
[Enclosure—Translation48]
The Nicaraguan Acting Minister for Foreign
Affairs (Pasos) to the
American Minister (Eberhardt)
Managua, August 30, 1928.
No. 497
Excellency: Agreeably impressed by the
reading of the treaty for outlawing and condemning war, of which
Your Excellency was so kind as to send this Ministry two copies,
one in English and the other in French, and especially by the
fact that the said treaty was recently signed in Paris, I
address the present note to Your Excellency to congratulate the
Government of the United States of America, through the worthy
channel of Your Excellency, in the name of my Government, and on
particular instructions from His Excellency President Adolfo
Díaz, on the important and far-reaching diplomatic triumph thus
attained, which will undoubtedly result in every benefit for the
interests of the human race.
The noble ends sought in the treaty referred to in condemning war
and renouncing it as an instrument and recourse of international
policy cannot but win the approval and praise of all the nations
of the world and particularly of small nations like ours; and it
is by reason of the above that Nicaragua joyfully adheres to the
said treaty, as my Government is completely in accord with its
text, as signed at Paris and recorded in the English and French
copies transmitted by Your Excellency; it being understood that
this adherence is ad referendum, that is,
subject to the constitutional approval of the Congress of the
Republic, to which it will be submitted at the next session and
by which approval undoubtedly will immediately be granted.
