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

40. President Paz has requested me to confirm the willingness of his Government towards sending a Commission of Inspection to the Guatemalan border. He suggested that the Commission might be composed of the Subsecretaries of Foreign Affairs of both countries, an engineer from each one, and a representative of the mediator government (Major Cruse); finally he suggested that the Commission might be increased by adding the Minister of Honduras to Guatemala and the Minister of Guatemala to Honduras. He stated that his idea is that this Mixed Commission should mark the provisional line of the status quo while “we proceed to negotiate the final settlement.”

Repeated to Guatemala.

Summerlin