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Nicaraguan President Adolfo Diaz, recognized by the U. S., has been consistently in such close harmony with U. S. nationals that he obtained last March a loan of $1,000,000 from the Manhattan firms of J. & W. Seligman & Co., and the Guaranty Trust Co. Therefore, last week it was only necessary for Presidential Representative Stimson to be firm with the Liberal faction of Nicaragua, whose President, Dr. Juan B. Sacasa, has been recognized as President of Nicaragua by the Mexican Government and has been declared to be the rightful holder of this office by the Chairman...
...Confirming our conversation of this morning, I have the honor to inform you that I am authorized to say that the President of the United States intends to accept the request of the [Diaz] Nicaraguan Government to supervise the elections of 1928; that retention of President Diaz during the remainder of his term is regarded as necessary for the proper and successful conduct of such elections, and that the forces of the United States will be authorized to accept the custody of the arms of those willing to lay them down, including the Government's and to disarm forcibly those...
Piquant also are the recently announced terms under which 3,000 rifles have been sold by the U. S. War Department for $6 each to the Conservative Nicaraguan Government of President Adolfo Diaz (recognized by the U.S.). The contract is so drawn that even if the Liberal Nicaraguan Government of President Juan Sacasa (recognized by Mexico) should be returned at the next Nicaraguan election it will have to finance payment for these arms (now being used to fight it by the Conservatives...
President Diaz (recognized by the U. S.) announced last week that, aided by a $1,000,000 loan placed in Manhattan, he will be able from now on to pay his Conservative soldiers 50¢ a day. As an earnest of this the Conservative troops were reported to have received a flat payment of $2.50 each last week, pending the arrival of promised U. S. gold...
...Davis expect to see, few could guess. But many knowing U. S. citizens link their holiday interest in the Panama Canal with the facts that Navy officers have declared the canal indefensible in time of war a,nd the rumored plans of a new canal through Nicaragua where Adolfo Diaz sits in the U. S.-protected president's chair...