715.1715/1219: Telegram

The Assistant to the Special Representative of the President ( Ocheltree ) to the Secretary of State

68. Referring to a telephone conversation this morning with Dr. Corrigan, the Mediation Commission met yesterday, June 2nd, and in [Page 259] a formal act resolved to postpone the date of renewing the plenary sessions of the conferences until further notice. Dr. Corrigan’s notes of May 23rd dated in Washington to the other members of the Commission are to be inserted in the act, showing as the President of Commission explained to me this morning that Dr. Corrigan was in agreement with the resolution.

Notice of this action was sent to the Minister of Foreign Affairs at Tegucigalpa yesterday by telegram, and to Dr. Cordero Reyes, delegate of Nicaragua, now at San José in a note dated June 2, signed by the representative of Costa Rica and President of the Commission and by the representative of Venezuela. A similar note is being sent to Tegucigalpa. The note gives as the reason for postponement the notes of May 23 from Dr. Corrigan explaining that the studies being carried out in the Department required more time and suggesting a postponement.

Dr. Rodriguez said that the local press would be informed today of the Commission’s action.

Ocheltree