760D.61/718
The Panamanian Ambassador (Boyd) to the Secretary of State
Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to advise Your Excellency that I have received a radiogram from my Government in which it is communicated to me that Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Nicaragua have replied that they are in full agreement with the idea launched by Ecuador and adopted by the Panamanian Foreign Office, of formulating a Pan American declaration or protest against the violation of the neutrality of Finland and the invasion of her territory on the part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The replies of Haiti, Peru, Chile, the United States and Uruguay only have not been received.
With the new adherences, the number of American nations supporting the idea has risen to sixteen, and it forms a large and respectable nucleus in support of this plan for a solidary protest.
Consequently my Government considers that the time has come for giving shape to this continental desire to formulate a collective Declaration [Page 133] or Protest through the medium of its permanent organ of expression, which is the Board of Governors of the Pan American Union.
Transmitting the foregoing information to Your Excellency, and the wishes of my Government that Your Excellency will lend your enlightened attention to this matter, I have [etc.]