760 D.61/655: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Panamanian Minister for Foreign Affairs (Garay)
I desire to acknowledge receipt of Your Excellency’s telegram of December 6, 1939, in which reference is made to Section 4 of Resolution 10 adopted at the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the American Republics regarding “the invasion of weak nations as an expedient for the prosecution and winning of wars” and in which you undertake to rouse all the American Republics to protest against the invasion and occupation of Finland.
Consonant with the spirit which motivated President Roosevelt in the issuance of his statement of December 1 condemning the Soviet resort to military force against Finland, this Government is prepared to associate itself with the governments of the other American republics in a joint statement of vigorous protest against the invasion of Finland.
Accept [etc.]