Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1939, The American Republics, Volume V

760D.61/609: Telegram

The Chargé in Panama ( Muccio ) to the Secretary of State

Panama , December 3, 1939—noon.
[Received 4:15 p.m.]

144. Panamanian Minister for Foreign Affairs² has just shown me a note dated December 2 from the Ecuadoran Minister that his Government has instructed him to suggest that Dr. Garay as ex-president of the meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs cable all the American Republics urging them to condemn, as contemplated by section 4 of the declaration for the “Maintenance of International Activities in Accordance with Christian Morality”,³ the invasion of Finland.

Dr. Garay told me that he and President Arosemena are willing to comply with the Ecuadoran suggestion but doubt that such action was contemplated by the declaration cited. Before replying to the Ecuadoran Minister’s note they would appreciate an expression of the Department’s views as to the advisability of such action and of its initiation by the Secretary for Foreign Affairs as ex-president of the consultative meeting.

Muccio

2. Narciso Garay.
3. Report of the Delegate of the United States of America to the Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the American Republics Held at Panamá September 23–October 3, 1939, p. 60.