715.1715/518: Telegram
The Chargé in Honduras ( Cramp ) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 28—10:10 a.m.]
30. My telegram of August 6, 5 p.m. In a note dated August 26 to the Nicaraguan Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Honduran Government “energetically protests” against the publication in Managua of a map showing an alteration in the frontier from that established by the award of 1906. The note ends stating that the Honduran Government “once and for all takes the firm stand that the demarcation of the boundary between Honduras and Nicaragua was fixed by the arbitral decision of the King of Spain.”
Feeling against Nicaragua is running high here and the Nicaraguan Minister told me yesterday he feared that the situation might get out of hand and that the Honduran Government might bring about a crisis “by its provocative attitude.”
I will be guided in the matter by the Department’s strictly confidential instruction Number 103 of April 30th, 1936,16 outlining our policy in the American Republics.
Repeated to Managua.