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Senator Borah oi Idaho, of course, orated before crowded galleries ; suggested that the U. S. keep the marines in Nicaragua only long enough to supervise an election, which President Diaz should authorize, to elect a new President. Mr. Borah wound up with stirring generalizations: "Inaugurate a campaign of peace . . . get in touch with the masses...
Secondly, the President brought down to another definite point the reason why the U. S. is intervening to support Diaz as President...
...President adduced no reason why Mexicans do not possess the same right to sell arms to the Sacasa faction that U. S. citizens exercise in selling arms to the Diaz faction. Instead President Coolidge defended his policy squarely and courageously on the ground that, "We have a very definite and special interest in the maintenance of order and good government in Nicaragua at the present time...
...Rochester, anchored off Puerto Cabezas, Rear Admiral Latimer calmly directed the marines, landed recently (TIME, Jan. 3) as they maintained "a neutral zone to protect American lives" in such a way as to cut off the Liberal adherents of President? Juan Sacasa from their chief base. Meanwhile President* Adolfo Diaz welcomed another detachment of U. S. marines which arrived "to protect the U. S. Legation" at Managua, Capital of Nicaragua...
Actual fighting between the Sacasa (Liberal) and Diaz (Conservative) forces continued in the interior. Since false reports of success were sent out on both sides, the true state of the civil war remained obscure, but a total of at least 500 combatant Nicaraguans were killed last week...