File No. 5025/76.
The Secretary of State to Minister Squiers.
Mr. Knox informs Mr. Squiers that Minister Dawson advises the department that information has reached Bogota that Colombian and Venezuelan revolutionists at Panama are preparing expeditions against Colombia and Venezuela. Mr. Knox says that so far as Panama and the United States are concerned if this report should be true it would be most untoward; that the American Government feels it to be the duty of Panama to see to it that her territory be not abused by alien refugees, and that any attempt at organization or any exportation of arms by them for unneutral purposes should be prevented. Mr. Knox says further that the United States naval force at Panama and Colon will upon occasion cooperate to prevent such acts against the peace of another friendly State.