810.154/249

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

No. 40

Sir: Referring to your telegram of September 2, 1930, regarding the Honduran Government’s indication to you that it desired to avail itself of the proffered cooperation of this Government in the Inter-American Highway Reconnaissance Surveys, you are informed that, in a letter dated September 19, 1930,6 the Director General of the Pan [Page 290] American Union has reported that he had received a communication from the Secretary of Promotion, Agriculture and Labor of Honduras indicating that the Government of that country desires this Government’s cooperation in the survey of the Honduran section of the Inter-American Highway.

The Chairman of the Technical Committee of the United States on the Inter-American Highway Reconnaissance Surveys has been informed, through the Minister of the United States in Panamá,8 that the Honduran Government has indicated this desire and he has been instructed to offer his Committee’s services to the Honduran Government at the appropriate time in the manner prescribed in the seventh paragraph of the Committee’s instruction, dated July 1, 1930, a copy of which was enclosed for your information with the Department’s instruction to you of July 22.9

Please ascertain and report to the Department, so that it may inform the engineers, whether it will be agreeable to the Government of Honduras to have the reconnaissance surveys begun within that country as soon as, or whenever, this Government’s cooperating highway engineers may be able or find it convenient to proceed to that country.

Very truly yours,

For the Secretary of State:
Francis White
  1. Not printed.
  2. Instruction No. 69, October 1; not printed.
  3. See footnote 99, p. 285.