711.1512Anti-War/1: Telegram
The Minister in Honduras ( Summerlin ) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 5—12:58 a.m.]
109. Your circular telegram of August 16, midnight, relative to multilateral treaty for the renunciation of war.
I have received from the Foreign Office a note dated September 4th, which, after detailed paraphrase of my note of August 27th, reads as follows in translation:
“My Government has given the most careful consideration to the momentous note of Your Excellency, appreciating in all its transcendental importance the work brought to a conclusion at Paris by the United States of America through the signing of the treaty against war. Conforming to the exalted purposes of that treaty, my Government is pleased to declare its decision to adhere to it as soon as the respective ratifications of the original signatory powers for putting the treaty into effect have been received.
In the meanwhile my Government expresses through Your Excellency to the Government of the United States its most enthusiastic congratulations for the brilliant success achieved at Paris on behalf of world peace.
Please accept et cetera. Signed Augusto C. Coello, Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs.”