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...President brought the "rightness" of U. S. recognition of Senor Diáz down to a specific point. Was or was not Dr. Sacasa (the duly elected Vice President of Nicaragua) in Nicaragua on Nov. 10, 1926? He was not. Very well. Article 106 of the Nicaraguan Constitution provides that in the absence of the President and Vice President, the Congress shall designate one of its members to complete the unexpired presidential term. The Vice President was absent. The President, Se?r Solorzano had resigned. Therefore the Nicaraguan Congress acted constitutionally on Nov. 10, 1926, when it elected Adolfo Diaz President...
Those who followed closely this portion of the speech wondered why Vice President Sacasa was absent from Nicaragua on Nov. 10, 1926. The President did not touch upon this point. Dr. Sacasa, of course, declares that he was absent because, had he been present he would have been shot down like a dog by his enemies: the Diaz-Charnorro faction. President Coolidge observed en passant, that at the end of November, after spending some time in Mexico City, Dr. Sacasa went back to Nicaragua, landing at Puerto Cabezas, near Bragman's bluff (with an armed force...
...inference is inescapable that, if Dr. Sacasa had been able to arrive with his forces before Nov. 10, instead of "at the end of November," he (Sacasa) would be today the Constitutional President of Nicaragua...
...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...
...inevitable that these two "legal" Presidents and their backers should do battle. Nicaraguan squabbles are no great cataclysms, since the peacetime strength of their army is 2,500 men. Mexico complicated matters by selling arms to President Sacasa's Liberals, who were doing well in a military way until Rear Admiral Julian L. Latimer landed U. S. Marines from his flagship, the U. S. S. Rochester, on the Mosquito (eastern) Coast of Nicaragua a fortnight ago. Acting on instructions from the Department of State, Rear Admiral Latimer set about to maintain the Bluefields neutral zone, ordered armed forces...