02/23/1931
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"Sandino has placed himself and his band outside the civilized pale by the coldblooded murder of eight or nine American civilians and many Nicaraguans at isolated places in the interior."
"The Nicaraguan Government has shown itself fully cognizant of its responsibilities."
"Our advices are that the Nicaraguan Government has now placed in the field a total of over 1,300 men of the newly created National Guard in a drive to clean up [Augusto Cesar] Sandino and his fellow b..."
"I do hereby further direct that all items above enumerated under Class Two be, and the same are hereby, transferred temporarily to the control and jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior for use..."