817.00/5571: Telegram
The Minister in Nicaragua (Eberhardt) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 18.]
Sir: With reference to the Department’s confidential instruction No. 327 of March 5, 1928,98 in the enclosure to which it is stated that funds are being forwarded monthly … to Sandino’s representative in New York City, I have the honor to inquire whether it would not be possible to prosecute those persons in New York and elsewhere who are openly encouraging and furnishing material support to the revolutionary activities now being conducted by Sandino in Nicaragua. It is well known in Nicaragua that not only Salomon de la Selva and Doctor Timoteo Baca, but also Toribio Tijerino, Socrates Sandino and others are materially assisting the rebels. It seems extraordinary that such activities, which are directed not only against the Nicaraguan Government but against American forces here, should be permitted to be publicly conducted without apparent efforts on the part of the United States Government to check them.
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