714.1515/980: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Honduras (Summerlin)46
89. Legation’s 114, November 26, 10 a.m. and Guatemala’s telegrams 152 and 154. Please transcribe fully by telegraph pertinent sections of the note from the Honduran Minister for Foreign Affairs’ dated November 25.
The Department earnestly hopes that the plan to hold the conference at Washington will not meet with failure through the inability of the Governments of Honduras and Guatemala to agree beforehand to leave their delegates complete freedom of action in dealing with the question at issue. Any concrete proposals emanating from the conference must of course be submitted to the respective Governments for approval and this fact should constitute a sufficient safeguard to both Governments.
Please informally discuss the matter in this sense with the Honduran Government and endeavor to obtain a modification of the terms upon which its attendance at the conference is based.
- Repeated to the Chargé in Guatemala in telegram No. 78 of the same date.↩