Office of the Historian

740.00111A.R.–N.C./64: Telegram

The Minister in Haiti (Mayer) to the Secretary of State

Port-au-Prince, March 2, 1940—2 p.m.
[Received 3:25 p.m.]

24. Department’s telegram No. 30, February 29, 9 p.m. The Minister for Foreign Affairs has just informed me that the communication [Page 291] from the Inter-American Neutrality Committee has not been received.47 Nevertheless in view of the urgency and in the absence of any objection on the part of the Haitian Government to the competence of the Neutrality Committee to deal with the problems arising from the Declaration at [of] Panama, he will transmit without delay to the Pan American Union an affirmative reply to the inquiry.

Mayer
  1. In despatch No. 759, March 5, the Minister in Haiti reported that the communication was received on March 4 and the Minister for Foreign Affairs had confirmed his instructions to the Haitian Minister in Washington (740.00111 A.R.–N.C./69).↩