715.1715/341: Telegram
The Chargé in Nicaragua (Hanna) to the Secretary of State
[Received 7 p.m.]
266. My telegram No. 259, November 1, 4 p.m. The Minister of Nicaragua in Tegucigalpa has telegraphed President Moncada that the Government of Honduras accepts Nicaragua’s proposal to carry out the award of the King of Spain providing the commissioners are engineers, and proposes that a protocol be immediately signed in Tegucigalpa naming the engineers appointed by the two Governments [Page 984] and binding both Governments to request the Government of the United States to name an engineer for president of the commission, and proposes further that the commission shall begin work immediately protected by armed forces of both countries. The telegram states that under the above conditions the Government of Honduras will cooperate with Nicaragua until peace is restored “as it has done during the present year.”
In informing me of the foregoing, President Moncada said he would insist that the commission should have arbitral powers to settle obscure points in the award and other questions which may arise. He said that without such powers there is no assurance that the commission would succeed in its mission.
Repeated to Tegucigalpa.