814.00/10–3144: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Guatemala (Long)
656. Most of the other American Republics have replied to the Department’s circular telegram of October 31, 9 p.m. indicating willingness to extend early recognition to the present régime in Guatemala. They have consequently been informed that the United States will extend recognition at 5 p.m. Guatemala time on Tuesday, November 7. At that time please deliver to the Government of Guatemala an appropriate acknowledgment of its note of October 22, mentioned in your telegram no. 711 of October 23, 5 p.m., expressing the desire of the Government of the United States to maintain with the present Guatemalan Administration, the warm friendship and the cordial cooperation which have so happily characterized our relations with Guatemala in the past.