714.18/33: Telegram
The Minister in Costa Rica (Sack) to the Secretary of State
[Received 1:50 p.m.]
10. The following telegram has been sent to Guatemala:
“February 28, 10 a.m. Your telegram of February 27, 4 p.m.4 Because of age and condition of his health Ricardo Fernandez Guardia withdrew acceptance yesterday of mission to Guatemala and the Minister of Foreign Affairs consequently requests the date for exchange of telegrams be changed to March 5th to permit him to arrange for appointment of another Minister.
The Government here has understood that requests for agrément of Ministers would be made simultaneously, neither party referring to a previous request received from the other, in order to avoid the impression that either Government was taking the initiative. The Minister for Foreign Affairs therefore suggests that both telegrams be filed at the same hour on the morning of March 5 and contain no reference to a request for agrément received from the other Government. Telegrams extending agrément can be exchanged subsequently.
Repeated to the Department.”
- See supra.↩