File No. 738.3915/96.]

The Acting Secretary of State to the American Minister to Haiti.

[Telegram.—Extract.—Paraphrase.]

In regard to your No. 1019; you will urgently counsel the Minister for Foreign Affairs against further delay of the issue of full powers in accordance with the Department’s January 15. The meeting of the plenipotentiaries must not be delayed by any question concerning the status quo line.

Wilson.