Office of the Historian

740.00111A.R.–N.C./46: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Honduras (Erwin)

Washington, February 16, 1940—6 p.m.

4. Your no. 3, February 13, 3 p.m. By proclamation dated October 18, 1939,45 it was declared unlawful for the submarines of a [Page 288] foreign belligerent state, including both commercial submarines and submarines which are ships of war, to enter ports or territorial waters of the United States, exclusive of the Canal Zone, except in case of force majeure. The proposal of the Uruguayan delegate to the Inter-American Neutrality Committee is therefore one which has already been adopted by the United States.

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  1. Department of State Bulletin, October 21, 1939, p. 396; 54 Stat. (pt. 2) 2668.↩