816.00/577
The Chargé in Salvador (Engert) to
the Secretary of State
[Extract]
San
Salvador, April 4,
1926.
[Received April 16.]
No. 1020G
Sir: In continuation of the Legation’s despatch
No. 986G of February 20, 1926, I have the honor to transmit herewith a
report on the general conditions prevailing in El Salvador for the
period from February 16, 1926 to March 31, 1926.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I have [etc.]
[Enclosure—Extract]
Report on General Conditions Prevailing in
Salvador From February 16 to March 31, 1926
The Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Consular Rights which the
Legation had been negotiating with the Salvadorean Government since
August 1925 was signed at the Foreign Office on February 22,
1926.33 The Minister of
Foreign Affairs, Dr. Arrieta Rossi, was much gratified at the
receipt of Secretary Kellogg’s cordial reply to his telegram of
February 23 expressing pleasure that
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the Treaty had been concluded.35 Whatever hostility there
may have been to the Treaty, and particularly to the
most-favored-nation clause, has greatly subsided and has given way
to a feeling of confidence that it will ultimately benefit Salvador
as much as it benefits the United States. The Legation has always
emphasized the feature of absolute mutual equality of treatment
maintained throughout the Treaty, and that Salvador—one of the
smallest countries in the world—would therefore receive at the hands
of the United States precisely the same treatment as one of the
great World Powers. This feature—which was at first not thoroughly
understood even by the President—later served as the most powerful
inducement in getting the Treaty accepted because it flattered the
amour propre of the officials in the
government.
