816.01/19: Telegram
The Minister in Guatemala (Whitehouse) to the Secretary of State
[Received 6:16 p.m.]
71. Minister of Foreign Affairs has just informed me that Doctor José Victor Gonzales has come to Guatemala on an official mission from the Salvadoran Government to request Guatemala to grant recognition of the new regime and to state what conditions it would impose.
The Minister replied that he must have time for reflection as Guatemala intended to be guided entirely by the letter and spirit of the treaties.
Both the President and the Minister of Foreign Affairs are quite firm on this point particularly as they seem to expect trouble in Honduras at any moment.
Repeated to Salvador.