File No. 2491/131.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Panama to the Secretary of State.
I have received your cable of this day advising that the convention of arbitration was signed last evening by the representatives of Panama and Costa Rica, and I wish to thank you once more in my personal name, and in the name of the Republic of Panama, for yours and your Government’s good offices in bringing about an honorable and satisfactory solution to the old and troublesome question that existed [Page 817] between the two sister Republics ever since they were born to independent life, thus showing how earnest is the desire of the United States to promote more and more the respect for the principle of arbitration, which must be a consistent rule to all controversies that may arise between civilized countries, and which also is an unequivocable proof of the friendly and kind disposition that all South American Republics are sure to find in the cordial policy of your Government.
1 Mutatis mutandis, to the minister for foreign affairs of Panama.