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

715.1715/1378: Telegram

The Assistant to the Representative of the President ( Ocheltree )¹⁰ to the Secretary of State

San Jose , January 6, 1939—11 a.m.
[Received 2:11 p.m.]

98. The Honduran Minister of Foreign Affairs in a communication dated December 31 addressed to the President of the Mediation Commission¹¹ in reply to the latter’s note of November 26¹² proposing an aerial survey of the region of the Segovia River stated in part:

“I regret to inform Your Excellency that my Government deplores (the fact) that it is unable to consent to a new discussion over territorial rights already absolutely defined by the civilized means of arbitration; that I am obliged most respectfully to make this declaration here because in the opinion of my Government the work and operations for the construction of a reconnaissance map of the region of the Coco or Segovia River which the Mediation Commission in accordance with its Governments considers to be advantageous to execute, presupposes the abandonment of the juridical position of Honduras.”

Complete copy by air mail Sunday. Press not informed.

Respectfully suggest that a meeting of the Commission might be arranged to take place in Panama on the return of the President of the Commission from Chile.

Ocheltree

10. John B. Ocheltree, Foreign Service Officer, Member of the Permanent Secretariat of the Mediation Commission in the boundary dispute between Honduras and Nicaragua.
11. Tobías Zúñiga Montúfar, representative of Costa Rica.
12. Not found in Department files.