738.3915/231
The Secretary of State to the High Commissioner in Haiti (J. H. Russell)
Sir: With reference to recent correspondence on the subject of the boundary between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, there is transmitted herewith, for your information, a copy of a telegram from the American Minister at Santo Domingo.76 You will note that the Minister does not deem it advisable at the present time to re-establish the frontier guard.
The Department would be glad to have your comments on the Minister’s suggestion that the provisional boundary line should be laid down on the ground. The advisability of attempting any survey of this temporary and provisional line at the present time seems doubtful, and it would appear preferable that the matter should be allowed to rest until the establishment of a constitutional Dominican government.
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