714.1515/714: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Honduras (Summerlin)
50. Your 73, June 12, 11 A.M. I deeply appreciate the spirit in which the Honduran Government makes inquiry as to the obligations resting upon it to submit the boundary dispute to the President of the United States. However, inasmuch as no final protocol has ever been executed making effective the agreement to submit this dispute to the arbitration of the President, as announced at the Central American Conference in 1923, it is the opinion of the Government of the United States that the obligations implied by that agreement may not be considered as precluding arbitration by the International Central American Tribunal, as provided for by the Treaty of 1923.
Please communicate the foregoing to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and state that the Department hopes that the Government of Honduras may now find it convenient to take the course of action suggested in the Department’s telegram of June 4, 4 P.M.33