715.1715/1386: Telegram
The Representative of the President (Corrigan) to the Secretary of State
[Received 6:51 p.m.]
8. Referring to the Department’s telegram No. 4 of January 18. Under the present circumstances it is unlikely that Doctor Rodríguez or his Government would agree to proposed visits unless accompanied by Zúñiga Montúfar or some other Costa Rican representative. Zúñiga Montúfar, now traveling in South America, has not yet answered my telegram of January 9.17 When his reply is received, if the Department perceives no objection, I would like to suggest to him and Rodríguez a meeting of the commission in Panama coincident with the date of his return here with the object of determining a plan of procedure in line with Department’s instructions.
I am in complete agreement with the Department’s view that the best hope of prevailing upon the Honduran Government to modify its views would be through the effective method of personal conversations between the members of the commission and President Carías. However, in view of the danger that delay and difficulties in getting the commission together and securing their agreement to the program may lose us the advantage of the present dry season (the only time of the year in which aerial reconnaissance is possible) and since according to my information there is division amongst President Carías’ advisers I have a strong feeling that other efforts to modify the Honduran Government’s ill-advised decision should be continued by means of all possible channels.