Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 200.11L44/17.

The Secretary of State to the American Chargé d’Affaires.

No. 30.]

Department of State,
Washington, July 31, 1913.

Sir: The Department has received your unnumbered despatch of July 19 [etc.]

The Department approves your action in having Lawson arrested and deported as an objectionable foreigner, in accordance with the suggestion of the Costa Rican Government that you would thus avoid any possible objection of the Central American Court of Justice to the granting of extradition in the absence of treaty provisions applicable to the case.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

J. B. Moore.