File No. 763.72119/257
The Guatemalan Minister (Méndez) to the Secretary of State
Highly Esteemed Mr. Secretary: With sincere thanks I acknowledge receipt of your excellency’s note of yesterday and the copies of the instructions sent by direction of His Excellency the President on the 18th of this month to the diplomatic representatives accredited to the Entente and the Central powers, with the humane object that they shortly make known their respective points of view as to terms on which war could be brought to an end and satisfactory arrangements could be made for the future.
I hasten to call those very important documents to the notice of my Government which I am sure will duly appreciate, as I do now, the elevated and most praiseworthy sentiments which gave them birth and shape in the extraordinary circumstances the world is undergoing.
In the meanwhile, I beg leave to say that I am under special instructions of the President of Guatemala to cooperate in accord with the Government of the United States of America; in anything that may be done for the restoration of peace, and nothing could give me greater pleasure than to be of service to your excellency in whatever way you may be pleased to use me to that end.
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