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The Wilson Administration and Nicaragua, 1913–1921

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

George W. Baker Jr.
George W. Baker Jr.*
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
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In latin american relations, Woodrow Wilson sought to revolutionize United States policy by supplanting the “Big Stick ”diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt and the “Dollar Diplomacy ”of William H. Taft with a new Pan Americanism. He not only reiterated his desire to be a good neighbor in numerous speeches, particularly his famous Mobile address of October, 1913, but he even formulated a Pan American Pact to promote hemispheric unity by providing for mutual sovereign and territorial respect. His pact failed largely because of the nationalistic opposition of Chile, and his grand design, though cropping up later in the League of Nations idea, ultimately went the way of all Utopian dreams. Then, since Wilson turned his attention to European and domestic affairs, it remained for his three successive secretaries of state, William Jennings Bryan, Robert Lansing, and Bainbridge Colby, to face the realities of Latin American relations and to apply their own policies in dealing with the immediate problems, especially of the smaller republics. Though each man predicated his policies upon Wilson’s promises of friendship as far as possible, and referred critical problems to the president, each generally left the imprint of his own beliefs and personality on hemispheric relations.

Bryan was sympathetic with the president’s goal of the brotherhood of nations, but he conceived his own plan for resolving international conflicts by proposing that all nations sign bilateral arbitration treaties and then submit their differences for at least a year’s consideration to an international arbitral board. He believed that if nations could be deterred from a hasty resort to arms, they would either “cool off ”while awaiting the decision or have their problem solved. But, Bryan, like Wilson, was not to achieve his larger objective because of nationalistic opposition, and he had to do what he could as a “Good Samaritan ”to help all nations become, like the United States, constitutionally sound republics.

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The Americas , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , April 1966 , pp. 339 - 376
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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1966

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15 Cuadra to Bryan, August 30, 1913, Foreign Relations, 1913, pp. 1047–1050.

16 Chamorro and Cuadra to Bryan, September 1, 1913, ibid., pp. 1050–1052; Bryan to Wilson, September 3, 1913, Wilson Papers; Brown and Seligman to Bryan, September 4, 1913, Foreign Relations, 1913, pp. 1052–1053.

17 Jefferson to Bryan, September 16, 1913, Bryan to Brown and Seligman, September 17, 1913, Brown and Seligman to Bryan, September 19, 1913, Foreign Relations, 1913, pp. 1053–1054; State Department Memorandum by Long, September 22, 1913, D.S. File 817.51/584.

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19 John B. Moore to Minister Benjamin Jefferson, October 10, 1913, Foreign Relations, 1913, p. 1059; Díaz to Wilson, October 15, 1913, Joseph Tumulty to Bryan, October 17, 1913, D.S. File 817.51/609; Bryan to Brown and Seligman, November 5, 1913, Foreign Relations, 1913, pp. 1064–1066; Bryan to Wilson, November 11, 1913, Wilson to Bryan, November 18, 1913, Wilson Papers.

20 Minister to Costa Rica Edwin J. Hale to Bryan, September 19, 1913, Bryan to Hale, September 21, 1913, Foreign Relations, 1913, pp. 1025–1026; Bryan to Wilson, September 23, 1913, Wilson to Bryan, September 25, 1913, Wilson Papers.

21 Chamorro to Bryan, October 10, 1913, Francisco Dueñas, minister of El Salvador, to Bryan, October 21, 1913, Foreign Relations, 1913, pp. 1027–1031; Moore to Tumulty, November 1, 1913, Wilson to Moore, November 21, 1913, Wilson Papers.

22 Jefferson to Bryan, December 18, 1913, Diego M. Chamorro, Nicaraguan minister for foreign affairs, to Francisco José Urrutía, Colombian minister for foreign affairs, December 24, 1913, Foreign Relations, 1913, pp. 1032–1034.

23 Bryan to Wilson, January 15, 1914, Wilson to Bryan, January 20, 1914, Wilson Papers; Bryan to Wilson, January 23, 1914, Bryan-Wilson Correspondence, National Archives.

24 Moore to Wilson, January 26, 1914, D.S. File 817.812/58a; Bryan to Wilson, January 29, 1914, Bryan Papers; Wilson to Bryan, February 20, 1914, D.S. File 817. 812/182; Díaz to Wilson, February 3, 1914, Wilson Papers; Chamorro to Bryan, February 12, 1914, Foreign Relations, 1914, pp. 953–954.

25 Bryan to Brown and Seligman, January 13, 1914, Foreign Relations, 1914, pp. 944–945; Boaz Long to Bryan, February 6, 1914, D.S. File 817.00/2321; Jefferson to Bryan, February 8, 1914, Foreign Relations, 1914, pp. 945–946.

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27 Pedro Rafael Cuadra to Bryan, May 13, 1914, D.S. File 817.51/726; Wilson to Bryan, May 20, 1914, Wilson Papers; Díaz to Wilson, May 20, 1914, Bryan to Díaz, May 23, 1914, D.S. File 817.812/73.

28 Bryan to Wilson, June 12, 1914, Wilson to Bryan, June 13, 1914, Wilson Papers; for a copy of Lansing’s memorandum, see D.S. File 817.812/168.

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35 Jefferson to Bryan, October 2, 1914, Díaz to Wilson, October 2, 1914, Bryan to Jefferson, October 3, 1914, Robert Lansing (acting secretary of state) to Brown and Seligman, October 14, 1914, Chamorro to Bryan, October 16, 1914, Chamorro to Bryan, November 17, 1914, Chamorro to Bryan, November 21, 1914, Foreign Relations, 1914, pp. 948–953.

36 Bryan to Wilson, January 12, 1915, Bryan to Wilson, January 22, 1915, Bryan Papers; Wilson to Bryan, January 26, 1915, D.S. File 817.812/385a.

37 The New York Times, January 25, 1915, 5:4 and January 26, 1915, 4:4 and 10:3.

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40 Bryan to Wilson, February 23, 1915, Bryan Papers; Bryan to Chamorro, March 4, 1915, D.S. File 817.812/117a; Bryan to Jefferson, March 6, 1915, Chamorro to Bryan, March 12, 1915, Jefferson to Bryan, March 13, 1915, Foreign Relations, 1915, pp. 1112–1114.

41 Lansing, Robert, “Consideration and Outline of Policies,” July 11, 1915, Lansing Papers, Library of Congress; Lansing to Wilson, November 24, 1915, Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States: The Lansing Papers 1914–1920 (hereafter cited as The Lansing Papers) (Washington, 1939–1940), II, 467 Google Scholar; see also Pratt, Julius W., “Robert Lansing,” in Samuel Flagg Bemis (ed.), The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy (10 vols.; New York, 1927–1929), X, 47–175 Google Scholar, and Smith, Daniel M., “Robert Lansing,” in Graebner, Norman A. (ed.), An Uncertain Tradition (New York, 1961)Google Scholar.

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43 Wilson to Lansing, December 15, 1915, D.S. File 817.00/2428.

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52 Stewart Johnson (Guatemala) to Lansing, October 16, 1916, Willing Spencer (Honduras) to Lansing, October 19, 1916, D.S. File 817.00/2521; Jefferson to Lansing, June 1, 1917, D. S. File 817.00/2577.

53 Josephus Daniels (secretary of navy) to Lansing, February 1, 1916, and Lansing to Stone, February 3, 1916, D.S. File 817.812/148.

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61 For the treaty, see ibid., pp. 848–852.

62 The New York Times, February 19, 1916, 1:6; Lansing to Bryan, February 28, 1916, Lansing Papers.

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67 Polk to Jefferson, August 10, 1916, Lansing to Zavela, August 31, 1916, Foreign Relations, 1916, pp. 906–908; Lansing to Wilson, November 20, 1916, D.S. File 817.51/815; Wilson to Lansing, December 8, 1916, D.S. File 817.51/883.

68 Jefferson to Lansing, December 14, 1916, Foreign Relations, 1916, p. 915; State Department Memorandum by Stabler, December 18, 1916, D.S. File 817.51/880.

69 Of the two Americans appointed to the commission, because of poor public conduct, one was soon fired by Lansing; the other, Abram F. Lindberg, proved competent. D.S. File 817.51/1953.

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71 Lansing to Jefferson, June 21, 1917, Foreign Relations, 1917, pp. 1127–1128.

72 Under American pressure, Zelaya had agreed to pay an indemnity of f600,000 for the Emery Claim. State Department Memorandum, June 6, 1917, D.S. File 817.51/968; Jefferson to Lansing, August 1, 1917, Polk to Jefferson, August 2, 1917, Lansing to Jefferson, August 9, 1917, Foreign Relations, 1917, pp. 1133–1137.

73 The Commission of Public Credit in its three months of life had pared down the debt claims from $13,500,000. Jefferson to Lansing, September 1, 1917, Jefferson to Lansing, September 12, 1917, Foreign Relations, 1917, pp. 1136–1137; United States Department of State, The United States and Nicaragua (Washington, 1932), pp. 34–36 Google Scholar.

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76 Zaldívar to Lansing, March 28, 1916, Foreign Relations, 1916, pp. 827–831.

77 Quesada to Lansing, May 23, 1916, Jefferson to Lansing, June 17, 1916, Foreign Relations, 1916, pp. 838–845.

78 Entry of June 2, 1916, Polk Diary; State Department Memorandum by Wright, June 29, 1916, D.S. File 817.812/268.

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94 Welles to Davis, December 28, 1920, D.S. File 817.00/2771; Davis to Tumulty, January 21, 1921, D.S. File 817.00/2755; between 1922 and 1924, Dr. Harold W. Dodds, a former political science professor at Western Reserve and secretary of the National Municipal League, served as electoral adviser to Nicaragua. His revisions were put into effect in the 1924 election and resulted in few charges of fraud. Dodds, “ The United States and Nicaragua,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, CXXXII (July, 1927), 134–141 Google Scholar.

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