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. 6775/208a.

The Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador.^a

Department of State,
Washington, November 11, 1907.

Excellency: The plenipotentiaries of the five Central American Republics of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Salvador, appointed by their respective Governments in pursuance of the protocol signed in Washington on the 17th day of September, 1907, having arrived in the city of Washington for the purposes of the conference contemplated in the said protocol, I have the honor to request that the said plenipotentiaries, together with the representatives of the United Mexican States and of the United States of America, appointed pursuant to the second article of the said protocol, convene in the building of the Bureau of American Republics, in the city of Washington, on the 14th day of November instant, at half past 2 o’clock in the afternoon.

Accept, excellency, etc.,

Elihu Root.

1. Mutatis mutandis to the Nicaraguan delegates, Salvadorean delegates, Honduranean delegates, Guatemalan delegates, Costa Rican delegates, the Mexican minister, and William I. Buchanan.