Office of the Historian

819.415C/72: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Honduras (Summerlin)

Washington, June 22, 1926—6 p.m.

21. American Legation Panama reports that at the Bolívar Congress the delegate of Honduras, Trejo Castillo, made remarks unfriendly to the United States when each delegation was responding last Friday night55 to the President’s address of welcome. He introduced a resolution on Saturday urging the United States to free Porto Rico. This resolution was referred to the Executive Committee which decided not to report it.

Please take this matter up immediately with the Honduran Government and ask for a definite answer whether Castillo was acting under instructions. If he was not please ask that his action be publicly disavowed and that appropriate steps be taken to prevent a repetition thereof by him.

Kellogg
  1. June 18.↩