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711.192/371

The Minister in Panama (South) to the Secretary of State

Panama, October 20, 1928.
[Received October 27.]
No. 1838

Sir: I have the honor to report that the day before yesterday I asked the Panaman Foreign Minister orally whether he expected the National Assembly to take any action on the Treaty of July 28, 1926, during its present session. I did not go into details, but merely mentioned the treaty in connection with other matters which I discussed with the Foreign Minister at his formal weekly reception.

The Foreign Minister replied that he understood that Dr. Ricardo J. Alfaro had initiated a discussion of the treaty with the Department of State at Washington,13 and that the treaty would not be presented to the Assembly in its present form, for he personally considered that it would be futile to do so.

I have [etc.]

J. G. South
  1. Marginal note by Assistant Secretary of State reads: “Alfaro has not yet done so. F[rancis] W[hite].”↩