File No. 763.72119/11
The Guatemalan Minister (Méndez) to the Secretary of State
[Translation]
The Guatemalan Minister is in receipt of the following telegram from the President of Guatemala:
Approach with judgment and prudence the enlightened Government to which you are accredited, as well as the other Latin-American representatives, to promote acceptance of the idea that all the nations of this American continent, under the leadership of the United States of America, which is always to be found in the van, should endeavor to bring the European war to the earliest possible end by proposing the conclusion of peace, if not possible immediately, at least when the first favorable opportunity offers.
The Guatemalan Minister will be pleased and honored to receive the valuable suggestions of his excellency the Secretary of State on the important subject of the foregoing telegram, which he considers to be a felicitous echo of the Most Excellent President Wilson’s humane and generous initiative in his message to the sovereigns and heads of the belligerent states of the 5th of August, 1914.
[Received August 10.]