818.00/745: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Nicaragua (Jefferson)

Your July 7, 11 a.m. Department has received note from Minister of Salvador in Washington15 informing it that Salvador had suggested to Governments of Central America that joint action might be taken with beneficial result in order to secure peace in Costa Rica.

Department has informed Minister of Salvador that this plan, which seems to be in harmony with the spirit of the Washington Conventions, has been regarded by the Department with sympathetic interest.

You may informally inform Minister for Foreign Affairs that this Government considers the answer made to Salvador by the Nicaraguan Government regarding the suggestion of Salvador, to be a proper one.

Lansing
  1. Note, dated July 7, and reply, July 14, not printed.