817.00/5704: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Honduras (Summerlin)
63. Department’s 42 June 1, 3 p.m.,16 and your despatch 647 of July 2, 1928, third paragraph. Department informed by Legation at Managua that Nicaraguan Government instructed its Minister in Tegucigalpa on June 21, 1928, to deliver note to Honduran Government requesting that Government to curtail activities of …
In view of the initiative taken by Nicaraguan Government you may bring informally to the attention of the Honduran Government the profound and friendly interest which the United States has in Central American peace and stability. The Honduran Government is of course fully aware of its obligations under the Treaties of 1923 and of its responsibility for the subversive acts of persons within its territory against the recognized governments of other Central American countries. This Government therefore concurs fully in the [Page 583] request made by the Nicaraguan Government that the Honduran Government take steps to curb the activities of those persons in its territory now aiding subversive movements in Nicaragua or engaging in such activities in the future. Such action by the Honduran Government would necessarily be welcomed as evidence of its sincere desire to comply with its obligations under the Central American Treaties.