710.1012 Washington/46

The Minister in Guatemala (Geissler) to the Secretary of State

No. 1946

Sir: With reference to the Department’s instruction 1080 [1070] of April 14, 1928,88 I have the honor to make the following report, regarding the attitude of the Government of Guatemala concerning the proposed Pan American Conference of Conciliation and Arbitration, to be held at Washington.

On May 9, I had a conversation with Minister for Foreign Affairs Salazar, in the course of which I handed him a brief Memorandum, a copy of which is enclosed,89 requesting that I be informed whether [Page 633] the suggestions, that the Conference be called to meet on December 10, 1928, and that not more than two delegates be named by each country, are acceptable to Guatemala. I beg leave to transmit, with translation, a copy of a Memorandum, in which Mr. Salazar expresses the acceptance of the Government.90

In the conversation referred to, I made informal inquiry regarding Guatemala’s procedure in the matter of the Gondra Treaty. The Minister for Foreign Affairs said, that he would look into the status of that Convention. He has since said to me, orally, that the ratification will be sent to the Government of Chile, probably by the end of the current month.

Mr. Salazar, in the course of our discussion of the subject, indicated, that he considers that ratification of the Gondra Treaty, by most of the countries members of the Pan American Union, would seem to go far toward supplying a method of conciliation, if not indeed quite as far as it might be practicable to go. As regards the proposed Convention of Arbitration, he did not express any specific ideas.

In the course of a week or two, I shall inquire informally, what has been done regarding the depositing of Guatemala’s ratification of the Gondra Treaty.

I have [etc.]

Arthur H. Geissler
  1. See footnote 72, p. 623.
  2. Not printed.
  3. Not printed.