Office of the Historian

714.1515/562a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Honduras (Summerlin)91

Washington, February 21, 1928—8 p.m.

15. The Honduran Legation has requested the Department’s opinion of an arrangement which it is stated the Government of Honduras contemplates proposing to Guatemala that

1.
An inspection of the disputed territory be made to determine for the time being a better defined neutral line;
2.
An agreement to proceed without delay to a final settlement of the boundary dispute, including if possible the definition of the final boundary line;
3.
An obligation on the part of both Governments to submit the matter to the United States for arbitration if no agreement reached under 2.
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The Department stated that it would be glad to see any arrangement by which a friendly settlement of the dispute might be reached and although it would be glad to assist in any friendly way towards such a settlement, it had no suggestions to make regarding the proposed Honduran offer.

Kellogg
  1. Repeated to the Minister in Guatemala as No. 11.↩