810.154/489: Telegram
The Minister in Uruguay (Wright) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received December 30—6:50 p.m.]
50. Your 34, December 29, 5 p.m.51 In plenary session December 23 in speech on communications I submitted to the Conference on behalf of the delegation the preliminary report of the engineers of the Bureau of Public Roads together with map and quoted in full the conclusions of said report.
[Page 211]After then referring to the tangible form in which the interest and purpose of the United States in its desire to improve communications had thus been expressed I stated that
“President Roosevelt has indicated that the Congress of the United States may well give favorable consideration to a recommendation that the United States bear the entire initial and immediate cost of a survey for a completed means of motor transportation throughout the northern and southern continents, the other interested governments to be requested later to share in the costs of the project, such survey of course to be conducted only with the full approval and cooperation of each of the interested nations.”
And stated further that it would appear advisable that the proposal be submitted to a committee which would include representatives of the interested states and that this committee be asked to report thereon at some early date.
- Telegram No. 34 reads: “Report briefly by cable the action taken by Conference on the Inter-American Highway project”. (810.154/482)↩