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. 3691/436.

Chargé Brown to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
La Union, Salvador, April 19, 1907.

Reports that the Salvadorean minister for foreign affairs states that the condition of anarchy in Honduras justifies Salvador in maintaining forces on the frontier as a measure of self-defense. Also reports that the peace negotiations are not yet concluded, but that he is hopeful, provided the revolution against Salvador is suppressed. Adds that the attitude of Nicaragua on this point is not at all clear.