714.1515/663: Telegram

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

62. Reference your telegram number 38, May 14, 7 p.m. I have received the following memorandum from the Minister for Foreign Affairs:

“President Paz has complete confidence in Mr. Davis and hopes that he will be able to lay down a provisional boundary line between Guatemala and Honduras; and his policy since the incident at Chachahualia [Page 743] up to the present has been to give no cause for disturbances or activities in the disputed zone notwithstanding that Guatemalan activities continue which were the occasion for the protest of May 11th of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. No hostile demonstration against Guatemala has taken place in Honduras.”

Although there have been patriotic demonstrations in which irresponsible individuals have uttered anti-Guatemalan cries, there has not been anywhere in the country, according to the information of the Legation, an organized hostile demonstration against Guatemala.

Repeated to Guatemala and Salvador.

Summerlin