715.1715/1153: Telegram

The Special Representative of the President (Corrigan) to the Secretary of State

59. Detailed replies of both delegations to the Commission’s notes of February 26 were received this afternoon. The Honduran reply made no suggestion for a settlement other than execution on the laudo47 and does not consent to a new discussion regarding “territorial rights already defined”. The Nicaraguan reply suggests that the Mediation Commission acquire the character and be invested with the facilities of a tribunal competent to render a final decision, although it expresses a willingness to examine any other suggestion made by the Commission.

A profusion of supplementary documents and [maps?] accompanied both expositions. These will entail considerable study. The Commission will reconvene tomorrow.

Corrigan
  1. Award of December 23, 1906, British and Foreign State Papers, vol. c, p. 1096.