816.01/63: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Costa Rica (Eberhardt)
5. Your 7, January 28, 2 p.m. The Department assumes you have made entirely clear to Anderson the Department’s position as set out in its No. 42, December 20, 1 p.m.,8 and that you have done everything you could to discourage his taking this proposed trip. It is understood that the Toloa does not sail until tomorrow afternoon. The Department desires you to get in touch with Anderson immediately and to say to him categorically that the Department’s decision that General Martínez could not be recognized was reached after the most thorough consideration; that there cannot be the slightest doubt that the regime headed by Martínez is barred from recognition by the terms of Article II of the Treaty of 1923; that the other Central American states have been unanimous in reaching the same [Page 572] decision; that under these circumstances the proposed trip of Anderson to Washington would be absolutely futile, and that if he persists in his plan to come to Washington he will not be received by any official of the Department of State in connection with this matter. You may add that the foregoing has been cabled to San Salvador for communication to General Martínez.