713.1311/310: Telegram
The Minister in Guatemala (Hanna) to the Secretary of State
[Received 3:48 p.m.]
36. The Minister for Foreign Affairs has given me confidentially a copy of a draft treaty of peace and friendship which he says the Honduran delegation will present today or tomorrow. Article 7 of the draft provides:
“The contracting powers declare their absolute respect for the provisions of their respective political constitutions and recognize the form prescribed therein as the only legal form for the transmission of public power. Express recognition of governors is unnecessary; but each country may break off diplomatic communication in case the order of transmission of power is altered by a revolutionary movement, so long as the new situation has not been legalized by the respective constitutional procedure.”
Repeated to Tegucigalpa and by air mail to the other Central American missions.