Office of the Historian

715.1715/1384: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Representative of the President (Corrigan)16

Washington, January 18, 1939—6 p.m.

4. Your telegram No. 6, January 15, noon. It is not believed that discussions with the Honduran diplomatic representative in Washington, [Page 151] as suggested by Doctor Rodríguez, would be of value in inducing the Honduran Government to recede from its position on the question of the aerial photographic survey. I feel that the only hope of prevailing upon the Honduran Government to modify its views in respect to a continuance of the work of the commission is from personal conversations between the members of the commission and President Carías. If Dr. Zúñiga Montúfar should for any reason be unable or unwilling to proceed to Managua and Tegucigalpa in the near future, it is greatly to be hoped that he will give his support to having the visits carried out by you and Dr. Rodríguez.

Hull
  1. Text of telegram was repeated on the same date as No. 4 to the Legation in Costa Rica for the information of Mr. Ocheltree.↩