Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 813.00/896

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American Legation,
Guatemala, December 11, 1917, 4 p.m.

In an interview this afternoon President Cabrera said that Costa Rica and Nicaragua cannot participate in the preliminary conference to be held here to arrange program of proposed congress on union of Central American States and the conference will not take place therefore. Evidently he is convinced that the congress will itself not assemble until some more convenient season.

Leavell