715.1715/1417: Telegram
The Representative of the President (Corrigan) to the Secretary of State
[Received 8:40 p.m.]
38. Referring Legation’s telegram No. 34, April 7 and No. 35 of April 8, on April 12 the President of Mediation Commission sent a telegram in clear to the Venezuelan member indicating my agreement that the Commission should meet at San José to discuss pending questions and requesting him to indicate the earliest date when he could meet in order “to communicate it to the foreign Governments of Honduras and Nicaragua”. On April 15 Dr. Rodríguez acknowledged receipt of this telegram stating that he had referred it to his Government.
[Page 159]Zúñiga Montúfar explained to Ocheltree that he had not used wording suggested by me as Rodríguez might seek a way out. The wording used apparently contemplates plenary sessions with the delegations instead of an executive meeting of the Commission only.
This would be, in my opinion, inadvisable until after proposed visit to Tegucigalpa.