715.1715/551: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Honduras ( Cramp )27

25. Your 50, September 6, 8 p.m. The Department desires you to seek an immediate audience with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and to express to him its sincere gratification over the statesmanlike action taken by him in conjunction with the Nicaraguan Foreign Minister in telephonically arranging for the maintenance of the [Page 70] military status quo in the area of the border common to Honduras and Nicaragua. You may add that this amicable adjustment of a difficult problem prompts the Department to express the renewed hope that a friendly solution of such questions as remain may be happily and speedily achieved.

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  1. A similar telegram was sent on the same date to the Chargé in Nicaragua as No. 54.