711.1928/485: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Panama (Flexer)
88. Your telegram 181, December 28, 12 noon. As set forth in the penultimate sentence of the Department’s telegram 65 of October 25, noon, the discussions in Panama are being held in an endeavor to work out a satisfactory agreement through administrative measures. The Department does not desire further to modify the wording of Article III or of the note relating thereto, and you should accordingly endeavor to avoid any discussions contemplating any such modifications. If the Panamanian representatives make any specific complaint regarding any sales of “sea stores” by the commissaries at prices which are alleged not to afford Panamanian merchants “fair opportunity to sell on equal terms”, the Department desires to be informed thereof, as well as of the views of the Canal Zone representatives in regard to any such sales.