715.1715/431: Telegram
The Minister in Nicaragua (Hanna) to the Secretary of State
[Received February 20, 1931—8:20 p.m.]
35. The following telegram has been sent to Tegucigalpa:
February 20, 4 p.m. This Government plans to send Senator Paniagua Prado, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, to Tegucigalpa in the immediate future to endeavor to obtain from the Government of Honduras some further concession in the boundary matter. I understand he will suggest modifying the protocol so as to give Nicaragua the territory between the Cocos and Cruta Rivers and if he was given this concession will then suggest that the Government of the United States or the Supreme Court of the United States be requested to decide whether the award of the King of Spain15 is legal.
Senator Prado is strongly opposed to the protocol, partly for the reason that he is not satisfied it represents the best terms for Nicaragua that might be obtained, and I understand that his mission to Tegucigalpa is primarily intended to enable him to study the situation personally for the effect it will have on him and the opposition here whether or not he succeeds in his mission. I understand that it is the purpose of the administration in the meantime to continue its efforts to obtain ratification of the protocol and that the probability of favorable action will be improved by Senator Prado’s absence.
If the Government of Honduras contemplates issuing a statement as suggested in numbered paragraph 2 of my telegram February 17, 1 p.m., it may see fit to postpone doing so until an appropriate occasion during Senator Prado’s visit there.
- Award of December 23, 1906, British and Foreign State Papers, vol. c, p. 1096.↩