Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1907, (In two parts), Part II

File No. 6775/190.

The Secretary of State to the Costa Rican Minister.^a

Department of State,
Washington, November 9, 1907.

No. 72.]

Sir: I have the honor to inform you that the Presidents of the five Central American Republics having invited representation by the United States in the conference which, pursuant to the protocol of September 17, 1907, will meet at Washington this month, the President of the United States has, conformably with Article II of the said protocol, appointed Mr. William I. Buchanan as his representative at the conference to lend his good and impartial offices in a purely friendly way toward the realization of the objects of the conference.

Accept, Mr. Minister, etc.,

Elihu Root.

1. Mutatis mutandis to the Guatemalan minister, No. 12; Honduranean minister, No. 5; and Salvadoranean minister, No. 5.