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

File No. 714.1515/9

Minister Leavell to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

American Legation,
Guatemala, February 20, 1917, 5 p.m.

Referring to Minister Ewing’s cablegram of February nineteenth to the Department and repeated to me. I am informed that the Cuyamel Fruit Company had an agent in Guatemala recently trying to secure a concession in this very same disputed territory.

Leavell