Abstract
This chapter reviews the Foreign Service’s efforts to come to terms with the new Good Neighbor policy, especially its non-interference principle, against the background of Presidents Ubico’s and Carias’s efforts to continue themselves in office beyond their legal terms. Most U.S. diplomats regretted that they could not play their traditional roles as guardians of good government in Central America, as they thought they had done in the past. Minister Francis Corrigan pleaded for a “responsible Good Neighbor” that would leave some room for U.S. interference to prevent the establishment of military dictatorships. The State Department was nonresponsive and General Martinez of El Salvador managed to manipulate Corrigan’s disappointment to convince the diplomat that he, Martinez, was the standard bearer of constitutionalism and honesty in Central America.
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