8 fore inclined to feel that we will get better results if we do not make long pronouncements but let the natives work out their solution as best they can with of course help and assistance from our diplomatic representatives but without tying our hands to any given course of action should the people of the country be able to come to some solution which gives promise of affording a reasonable period of peace and quiet in the country even though it should not fall in with our ideas of a republican democratic constitutional government and even should it not be in accordance with their own written constitution.
THE By this of course do not mean that we should not NEN use our efforts to bring about constitutional government and procedure in Central America.
Such should be the end to which we should constantly work but Central America except to a limited extent in Costa Rica and to a somewhat less extent in Salvador has not yet arrived at that stage.
We can help them and coach them and advise them along the road to that end and should by all means do so at every possible opportunity but it may be necessary for us, in the process of awakening public opinion in those countries to a desire for such a government, to close our eyes to many unconstitutional acts that will inevitably occur while they are traveling the road of hard experience which