Office of the Historian

860F.00/762: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Guatemala (Des Portes)

Washington, March 26, 1939—noon.

11. Your 8, March 24, 4 p.m. After thanking the Foreign Minister for his confidence in consulting this Government with respect to the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia you should give him copies of the statement issued by the Acting Secretary on March 17, and a copy of the reply of this Government to the note from the German Embassy, this reply being dated March 20 (see radio bulletin for texts).

Although, as is evident from the statement of the Acting Secretary, the Department views with concern recent developments in Central Europe, it does not believe that these developments present occasion for initiating the procedure of consultation as provided for in the Buenos Aires Pact5 and the Declaration of Lima.6 The Foreign Minister’s suggestion will be borne in mind, however, for future reference.

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  1. Signed December 23, 1936; for text, see Department of State Treaty Series No. 922, or 51 Stat. 15; for correspondence, see Foreign Relations, 1936, vol. v, pp. 1 ff.↩
  2. Approved December 24, 1938; for text, see Report of the Delegation of the United States of America to the Eighth International Conference of American States, Lima, Peru, December 9–27, 1938 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1941), p. 189. For correspondence, see Foreign Relations, 1938, vol. v, pp. 1 ff.↩