715.1715/1421: Telegram

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

40. As suggested in Department’s confidential telegram No. 31, April 22, 3 p.m., I communicated observations to Zúñiga Montúfar through Ocheltree. The latter replies as follows:

“Referring to the Department’s telegram regarding the next meeting of the Mediation Commission, the President of the Commission has no intention of convening the delegations for this meeting. If Dr. Rodríguez is unable to meet at an early date the President of the Commission intends to inform the Governments of Honduras and Nicaragua of this fact as the explanation of the delay on the part of the Commission in dealing with the mediation.

He has never shown any enthusiasm for the proposed visits to Tegucigalpa and possibly Managua and when this is suggested he may favor instead the sending of a note to the Government of Honduras requesting that Government to reconsider its note of December 31, 193828 regarding the survey. However, he has stated that the question of visits should be taken up when the Commission meets.”

Corrigan
  1. See telegram No. 98, January 6, 11 a.m., from the Assistant to the Representative of the President, p. 148.