715.1715/685: Telegram
The Chargé in Nicaragua (Castleman) to the Secretary of State
[Received 8:03 p.m.]
135. Referring to my[?] telegram No. 74, October 7, 4 p.m. from Tegucigalpa, when I discussed with the Nicaraguan Minister of Foreign Affairs the content of the Department’s telegram No. 62, October 1, 7 p.m.,37 I mentioned the protocol of 1931 as a possible point of departure. No conclusion was formulated by the Minister because matters took a different trend. However, his initial opinion was that the protocol in its original form, particularly the substance of the first clause which is insisted upon by the Honduran Minister for Foreign Affairs, is not acceptable to Nicaragua. He seemed to think that the protocol as modified by Congress,38 which appears in the “memoria” of the Foreign Minister for the year 1931, might be acceptable, but the Department will note that this instrument denies the validity of the Laudo, and is therefore contrary to the expressed basic requirement of Honduras.
[Page 82]Will the Department please instruct whether there is any suggestion toward conciliating the two viewpoints or any other related phase which I should take up when, as I believe is prudent, I ask for a formal expression of the Minister’s views.
Repeated to Tegucigalpa.
- See footnote 31, p. 76.↩
- Foreign Relations, 1931, vol. i, p. 805.↩