715.1715/797: Telegram
The Nicaraguan Minister for Foreign Affairs (Cordero Reyes) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received 2:33 p.m.]
I have the honor to refer to Your Excellency’s message dated yesterday48 in which you were good enough to state to me that the Government of the United States, together with those of Venezuela and Costa Rica, were pleased to tender their good offices to the Governments of Nicaragua and Honduras, for the purpose of facilitating a peaceful solution of the controversy over boundaries which unfortunately has arisen between the two Republics and that, in the case of acceptance, the three Governments would be very glad to present suggestions for the purpose of relieving the present tension of the relations between this Republic and Honduras and on obtaining this result, to offer suggestions which could be adopted by the contending nations for the purpose of arriving at a definitive settlement of the controversy. In reply, I take pleasure in stating to Your Excellency that the Government of Nicaragua, faithful to its traditional policy of sincere devotion to peace, of which it has given eloquent examples in the course of the discussion regarding boundaries with Honduras, accepts with pleasure the good offices which the Government of the United States has been good enough to offer it, together with the Governments of Venezuela and that of Costa Rica, for the ends indicated in Your Excellency’s telegram which I have the honor to answer. In expressing to Your Excellency’s enlightened Government the profound gratitude of the Nicaraguan Government for its noble endeavors directed to the maintenance, for Nicaragua and Honduras, of the blessings [Page 95] of peace which were on the point of being lost as well as to assuring on the continent the success of the promises of Buenos Aires, I beg Your Excellency to accept [etc.]