813.00/1150
The Secretary of the Provisional Federal Council of the Republic of Central America (Martínez Suárez) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 26.]
Most Excellent Sir: In execution of the Pact of Union signed at San José, Costa Rica, on the 19th of January of this year, approved by their respective legislatures, the States of Guatemala, Salvador, and Honduras have constituted a Federal Republic, organized in accordance with the Political Constitution framed by the Constituent National Assembly on the 9th of September last and promulgated on the same date.
The executive power of the new nation at present resides in the Provisional Federal Council, in accordance with article VIII of the Pact of San José, the said Council having, among other powers, that of bringing about “by itself or through representatives, the admission of the Republic of Central America into the juridical international community” as specially provided by paragraph 2 of article 207 of the Political Constitution.
Acting under that provision, the Provisional Federal Council has seen fit to appoint Dr. Don José Matos, Dr. Don Francisco A. Lima, and Dr. Don Vicente Mejía Colíndres, former members of the Constituent National Assembly for the States of Guatemala, Salvador, and Honduras, to seek from the Government of Your Excellency the official recognition of the Republic of Central America, already constituted in accordance with all the requirements of international law.
The Provisional Federal Council cherishes the most confident hope that its representatives will be received by the Government of Your Excellency with that high spirit of justice and cordiality that it has always shown to the American peoples within the solidarity that binds them to your great nation.
On this welcome occasion I have [etc.]
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