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

760D.61/655: Telegram

The Panamanian Minister for Foreign Affairs (Garay) to the Secretary of State

[Translation]

Panama, December 6, 1939.
[Received 3:07 p.m.]

At the initiative of the Government of Ecuador, which the Government of Panama welcomes with the greatest sympathy, and as ex-chairman of the Consultative Meeting at Panama, I have the honor to address Your Excellency in this anniversary of the independence of Finland to recall to you Resolution X⁶ of the Consultative Meeting, section 4 of which “considers unjustifiable violation of neutrality or the invasion of weak nations as an expedient for the prosecution and winning of wars” and I take the occasion to rouse all American Republics to protest against the invasion and occupation of Finland. I greet Your Excellency with my highest consideration.

Narciso Garay

6. For Spanish text, see Diario de la Reunión de Consult a entre los Ministros de Relaciones Exteriores de las Repúblicas Americanas, Panama, November 23, 1939, p. 55.