714.1515/622: Telegram
The Representative of the United States on the Guatemalan-Honduran Boundary Commission (Davis) to the Secretary of State
[Received 7:30 p.m.]
6. Doctor Salazar in an informal and confidential conference with me made following suggestion for settling boundary controversy.
- 1.
- Guatemala will renounce claims for boundary along the Merendon Range from Cerro Brujo to Mount Elencia and will accept line [Page 738] of actual possession to Cerro Mirador from which point line is to run to Mount Elencia thence eastward on Merendon Range to Mount Ildefonso thence to the sea through Cuyamel River.
- 2.
- Guatemala to pay Honduras indemnity possibility [sic] one million dollars.
- 3.
- Guatemala to indemnify Cuyamel Fruit Company.
- 4.
- Guatemala will agree to recognize legitimate titles granted by Honduras and in case of Guatemala’s claims relative to titles will submit same to arbitration.
- 5.
- He also intimated that Guatemala might cede small section near La Brea, now in possession of Guatemala.
Engineer Malsbury estimates about 850 square miles in dispute would be acquired by Guatemala. However the most productive portion of this territory has been in the possession of Guatemala for many years, including the village of Quebradas.
See “Map of the Honduran-Guatemalan Frontier, scale one in 200,000, by Medar Dozunfen, dated June 1922,” latest report War Department.
I have inquired discreetly of the Honduran Commission if they would be interested in a settlement of this nature without informing them of Dr. Salazar’s suggestion and they refuse to consider the matter.