715.1715/323: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Nicaragua (Hanna)
132. Your 229, September 20, 3 p.m. Please confer with the brigade commander and report to the Department whether in his opinion and yours, it would be safe for a commission of engineers to survey the Honduras-Nicaragua boundary during the coming dry season. It would seem that the Guardia Nacional should be able to afford all necessary protection on the Nicaraguan side. The Department desires to have this information in order to consider what its next step should be.
Do you think the President of Nicaragua would really be prepared to go forward with a survey of the boundary if he felt that the work could be safely done?