It is extremely inconvenient for the United States that the
revolt of General Sandino in- Nicaragua should be hating a certain success just when the United States is about to -mobilize for the Pan-American Congress a greater array of diplomatic strength than she has ever mobilized before, and just when Mr. Kellogg is proposing to the world that war should be renounced as an instru- ment of policy. Sympathy with the United States, however, will not fail to come from nations labelled " Imperialistic " which have discovered how easy it is, with the best intentions, to drift inth a policy that is called suppression. A few Nicaraguan National Guards who were co-operating with the American Marines have deserted to the Liberal side. Only the power of the United States, exerted partly on the spot, but mainly in the background, has kept President Diaz in office-. Before the end of the month there is to be a Presidential election. Perhaps we shall then see what the Nicaraguan Liberals mean by their Liberalism. Does it mean that they want definitely to end foreign control ? Anyhow, the Americans will have an opportunity of "making the elections" which might be envied by a French prefect.
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