Office of the Historian

810.154/258a

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Panama (Davis)

Washington, October 21, 1930—6 p.m.

74. Your 69, October 10, 5 p.m. and the Department’s reply 68 October 11, 4 p.m. The Legation at Tegucigalpa cabled October 19, noon: “Minister of Fomento of Honduras states agreeable if engineers come about November 1st but not later during rainy season”.

Please communicate the foregoing to Chairman Forbes and telegraph directly to the Legation at Tegucigalpa when the engineers expect to reach that capital.

Please ask the Chairman whether the Committee has mailed its first quarterly report to the Secretary of State. If not invite his attention to the eighth paragraph of the general instructions of July 1. No report from the Committee has yet reached the Department, other than its letter to you enclosed with your No. 227 of October 11.13a

Costa Rican Government has not yet requested cooperation. Department will discuss this with Eberhardt who is expected about November first.

Stimson
  1. Enclosure to despatch No. 227 not printed.↩