File No. 6775/112.
President Roosevelt to the President of Guatemala.a
I received in due course the gratifying response made by Your Excellency to my message of the 28th of August, in which I urged, concurrently with His Excellency the President of Mexico, the need of peaceful and harmonious relations between the five Central American Republics, and tendered my good offices toward bringing about the suggested peace conference among them.
I have been glad to see that the unqualified acceptance, by Your Excellency and by your Central American colleagues of the friendly proposals made by the President of Mexico and by me, has been followed by a successful movement among the Central American representatives in Washington to open the way for such a conference by agreeing upon the place and date thereof and by concluding a mutual engagement that the good relations of the Central American States shall be maintained pending the meeting of the conference and its results.
Being made aware of the preliminary protocol signed by the duly authorized representatives of the five Central American States in Washington on the 17th instant, I now have the pleasure, concurrently with His Excellency the President of the United Mexican States, to invite Your Excellency—as I in like manner invite the Executives of the other four Central American Republics—to name a commissioner or commissioners to meet commissioners named by the other Republics of Central America, in formal conference, in the city of Washington, during the first fifteen days of November next, to discuss the steps to be taken and the measures to be adopted in order to adjust any differences which may exist among said republics, or any of them, and for the purpose of concluding a treaty which shall determine their general relations.
- Mutatus mutandis to the Presidents of Nicaragua, Honduras, Salvador, and Costa Rica↩