Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1927, Volume III

711.152/1: Telegram

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

[Paraphrase]

Washington, July 12, 1926—3 p.m.

25. Department’s telegram numbered 38, September 20, 1923, 6 p.m. and Legation’s telegram number 79, September 24, 1923, 10 a.m.¹

The Government of the United States would be pleased to begin negotiations with Honduras for a treaty of friendship, commerce and consular rights similar to the treaty between the United States and Germany signed December 8, 1923² (Treaty Series No. 725), and the treaty between the United States and Salvador, signed February 22, 1926.³

Inform the Department at once whether the Government of Honduras is now willing to begin negotiations for a treaty to supersede the treaty of 1864,⁴ as it was in September, 1923.

With reference to commercial provisions, the principle of the draft treaty which this Government would submit would be unconditional most-favored-nation treatment. If the Government of Honduras should be willing to begin negotiations, draft treaty and instruction will be sent to you at once.

Kellogg

1. Neither printed.
2. Foreign Relations, 1923, vol. ii, p. 29.
3. Ibid, 1926, vol. ii, p. 940.
4. Treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation, concluded July 4, 1864; Malloy, Treaties, 1776–1909, vol. i, p. 952.