File No. 861.00/2990
The Honduran Minister ( Lopez Gutierrez) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 16.]
Most Excellent Sir: An inquiry having been made of my Government by the most excellent the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of this country to Honduras as to whether it would be disposed to take an immediate resolution toward the terrorism that has set itself up as a system of government in Russia where no one, be he a native or an alien, be he ever so peaceable, can feel secure of his life or property, I have been instructed by the Minister of Foreign Relations of that Republic to make known to your excellency the horror with which my Government witnesses the establishment in the Russian nation of a systematic persecution that cannot but [Page 710] bring in its trail an aggravation of the anarchy that prevails in that unfortunate country.
No nation that takes pride in professing principles of civilization will fail to pass the most severe condemnation on Russian terrorism. My Government holds that this is surely not the age in which to attempt to set up governments on the foundation of murder and violence. That abominable system can bring but one result, a gashing split of the countries into persecutors and persecuted, with endless anarchy supreme.
Under the circumstances, I deem it the duty of all the countries possessed with any degree of self-respect to protest against all systems of government abhorrent to civilization.
Most noble is the attitude taken by your excellency’s Government on this question, and it affords me great pleasure to declare in the name of that which I have the honor to represent its firm adhesion to the lofty sentiments which moved it to make the declaration recorded at the beginning of this note.
I renew [etc.]