611.2131/301
The Chargé in Colombia (Washington) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 9.]
Sir: I have the honor to report that I have been informed in the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the credentials of Dr. Miguel López Pumarejo as Minister to the United States are being sent to him by air mail today and it is expected that he will be prepared to present them early next week.
I understand that the new Minister’s instructions for the negotiation of the commercial treaty are not leaving by the same mail, in spite of the fact that Dr. Olaya assured me several weeks ago that both the credentials and the instructions would be sent to the United States before this. I am told that the delay in sending the instructions is caused by the fact that Dr. Olaya was so dissatisfied with the report of Dr. Arturo Hernández, Chief of the Customs Court of the Department of Finance, that he ordered that an independent study of the United States Government’s proposals of December 1934 be made in the Consular Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and that this work has not yet been completed. I believe this information to be correct, though there was a time when the delay in replying to the American proposals was possibly caused by the hope on the part of the Colombian Government that it could see a copy of the commercial treaty between the United States and Brazil. Failing at this Legation, inquiries were made at the Colombian Legation in Washington, but the Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently told me that he had definitely ascertained through his Chargé d’Affaires in Washington that the treaty has not yet been published.
Respectfully yours,