715.1715/571: Telegram

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

54. I was told this evening by the Minister for Foreign Affairs that Honduras will not reopen the frontier limitation question to arbitration. I gathered in my conversation with him that the basis for mediation which the Government will consider is for the definition of the obscure points mentioned in the alleged Nicaraguan acceptance of 1906, which mostly concern the area around Teotecacinte.

He told me personally and in strictest confidence that the Government was not entirely adverse to the offer of President Ubico, but that it would prefer, if possible, to find some other means of solving the question.

Cramp