862.857 Hannover/14: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Venezuela (Oorrigan)
29. Your 36, April 11, 2 p.m. Please inform the Minister of Foreign Affairs that the proposal of this Government and of the Governments of Panama and the Dominican Republic in connection with the Hannover incident included the submission of the case to the Inter-American Neutrality Committee at Rio and that this procedure was included in the proposal as a direct result of the position set forth by the Venezuelan Government at the time of the Wakama incident. It is therefore hoped that the Minister for Foreign Affairs will be willing to give the approval of his Government to the other matters involved in the current proposal in the Hannover case, namely the communication to the Dominican Republic from the other American republics and the communication from the President of Panama to Great Britain and Germany on behalf of the American republics.
The Department understands that a number of the American republics have already approved the proposed method of dealing with the Hannover case and has no information that any of them other than Venezuela are unwilling to participate in the proposed action. [Page 721] For your information the following telegram expressing the Department’s position was today sent to the American Ambassador at Buenos Aires:
[Here follows text of telegram No. 57, April 15, 5 p.m., to the Ambassador in Argentina, printed supra.]