763.72/3773
The Secretary of State to President Wilson
Washington
,
April 12, 1917
.
My Dear Mr. President: Although you have received a copy of this message9 I desire to call your attention particularly to it and to receive from you directions as to what reply we should make.
I believe that it would be for our interest to have Guatemala in the war, and very possibly Honduras, as it would offer a constant check upon Mexico in case its Government should adopt any measures in the interest of Germany.
Faithfully yours,
Robert Lansing
- Memorandum from the Guatemalan Minister of Foreign Affairs to the American Minister in Guatemala, Foreign Relations, 1917, supp. 1, p. 258.↩