710.11/2060
Memorandum by the Assistant Secretary of State (Welles) to the Chief of the Division of Latin American Affairs (Duggan)
I share your own conclusions with regard to the attached memorandum.
It would seem unnecessary for us to make any public pronouncement in this matter. The violation of the provisions of the Treaty by both [Page 134] the present Government of Guatemala and the present Government of Honduras make the Treaty a complete dead letter and if the contingencies referred to by Mr. Beaulac should arise and we were then blamed for not having made a public announcement, it would seem to me that only a curt reference to the violation of the Treaty by both Guatemala and Honduras would be sufficient to explain a non-continuation by ourselves of our previous support of the policy embodied in the Treaty.