715.1715/338: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Honduras (Summerlin)

81. Reference Legation’s telegram No. 106.56 Please inform the Government of Honduras that the Department is gratified to learn that it has accepted the proposal of President Moncada for the formation of a Commission to establish the boundary between the two republics and hopes that a complete agreement may now speedily be reached.

You may say to President Mejia Colindres that upon the conclusion of a protocol providing for the establishment of the Commission and for the cooperation of this Government the Government of the United States will, upon request, gladly consider the designation of a competent American engineer to serve as President of the Commission.

[Paraphrase.] It is assumed by the Department that the protocol will set forth clearly the duties to be entrusted to the Commission and will provide that the demarcation of the boundary shall be effected in accordance with the award of the King of Spain.

A similar telegram is being sent to the Chargé in Nicaragua.57 [End paraphrase.]

Stimson
  1. Ante, p. 983.
  2. As telegram No. 155 of the same date; not printed.