816.01/88: Telegram
The Minister in Guatemala ( Whitehouse ) to the Secretary of State
[Received 3:05 p.m.]
15. The Minister for Foreign Affairs was very satisfied with the information contained in your telegram No. 6, February 9, 6 p.m., and with the assurances regarding designates mentioned in the telegram of February 9, noon, from the Legation at San Salvador. The only definite steps that he had in mind were a refusal to honor passports issued by the Martínez regime and some action by the fiscal agent to withhold revenues. I suggested certain difficulties concerning [Page 576] the latter and he agreed that it was impracticable. He seemed to know Anderson well and feared that if the Department would not receive him he would take his grievances to the Senate.
Repeated to Salvador.