714.18/37: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Costa Rica (Sack)
7. The following telegram, which refers to the suggestion regarding the exchange of telegrams contained in your telegram 10, of February 28, 10:00 a.m., to the Legation at Guatemala,5 has been received from Minister Hanna:
“9. March 8, 1 p.m. Department’s telegram No. 7, March 1, 6 p.m. This Government at first expressed decided unwillingness to accept the suggested procedure for ‘simultaneous’ notification but President Ubico has just authorized me to say that he is agreeable to an exchange of telegrams on any designated day without specifying the hour.”
You are authorized to transmit the information contained in the foregoing telegram informally to the Costa Rica Government. In doing so, you will make it clear that the Department and its missions are acting merely as a channel of communication between the Governments of Costa Rica and Guatemala in accordance with the expressed desire of those Governments. It desires to limit its assistance to this and is confident, in view of the very evident and sincere desire of the Governments of Costa Rica and Guatemala to improve the relations existing between them, that those Governments will reach an early agreement regarding exchange of ministers, and that the need of this Government’s assistance will not be prolonged.