816.01 Caffery Mission/1: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in El Salvador (Curtis)
68. The American Minister in Colombia, Jefferson Caffery, former Minister in El Salvador, who is now in the United States on leave of absence, has kindly consented to go to El Salvador as Special Representative of the Department of State in order to confer with you in a study of the situation and to suggest as to who might constitutionally succeed to office and still not be debarred from recognition by the United States and the Central American Governments by the provisions of the treaty of 1923.
The Department feels that Mr. Caffery, because of his previous service in El Salvador, will be in a particularly favorable position to assist the Department and the Legation in the present situation in El Salvador.
Mr. Caffery will arrive in San Salvador by airplane on the afternoon of December 19. He will be accompanied by Mr. Freeman Matthews, Second Secretary of Legation. Please extend to Mr. Caffery all facilities of the Legation. Please make hotel reservations for them: a sitting room, bedroom and bath for Mr. Caffery and bedroom and bath for Mr. Matthews.