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Truident Truman AIRGRAM UNRESTRICTED FROM Managua Dated May 31, 1945 Rec'd : June 42 6pon. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Secretary of State, a Washington. JUN 5- -1945 A-181, May 31, DC/L LIAISON OFFICE Resolution No. 79 of the Chamber of Deputies and Senate of Nicaragua adopted by the two houses on May 18 and 29, 8 1945, respectively, reads in translation as fol- lows: "Article 1. To direct requests to all the legislative powers of the nations of the American Continent in order that on July 4, next, the 11- lustrious President Fronklin Delano Roosevelt be declared Benemerito de las Americas' "Article 2. To place in the session chamber of the National Congress the portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in order that the present repre- sentation and those which are to come , having his face in view, may be inspired by the noble and high principles which he susteined and fight with faith and their whole being for the sacred rights of Democracy and Liberty "Article 3. To send a copy of the present Resolution to the Executive and the Congress of the United States of America. and "INATIONAL "Article 4. This Resolution will enter into ARCHIVES RECORDS effect from the date of its publication in Le SERVICES Gaceta." This Embassy has been requested by the Nicaraguan Senate to transmit a copy of the above Resolution to the Executive Power of the United States. A suitable acknow ledgment has been transmitted to the Senate pending any additional expression of appreciation which it may be desirable to make. Copies