710 Consultation 3A/542: Telegram
The Chairman of the Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense (Guani) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 6, 1944—12:28 p.m.]
I take pleasure in communicating to Your Excellency that at a plenary session today Committee over which I have the honor to preside decided to acknowledge receipt courteous telegram of Your Excellency dated December 27, 1943,18 which expresses that United States approves warmly resolution; and to advise you extract replies received up to date from the American Chancelleries. Brazil informs that it is and has been in favor of previous consultation between American Governments whenever there may be continental interests to safeguard and will carefully study recommendation; Colombia states that that extremely important initiative is the subject of the most attentive study on the part of the government; Costa Rica accepts [Page 6] fully recommendation transmitted December 24, 1943; Cuba expresses approval of said resolution; Chile communicates that it has been in contact at every moment with the other Chancelleries, and has maintained an interchange of information for the purpose of contributing to safeguarding interests to which recommendation refers; Dominican Republic states [that]20 it identifies itself with proposals recommendation and is in a position to interchange information tending to consultation concerning any new government constituted by force in America; El Salvador is in agreement and adheres thereto; Guatemala is in agreement with criterion expressed in resolution; Honduras expresses assent to recommendation; Mexico states that her attitude coincides with spirit of recommendation and that government is in agreement to participate consultations and interchange of information; Nicaragua accepts recommendation with pleasure, offering to carry it out in each and every one of its parts; Paraguay accepts recommendation; Peru states that it will not proceed to recognize a new government constituted by force, without previous consultation; Uruguay finds no objection to adhering to the view advocated by this committee, and Venezuela receives the initiative with sympathy; further I wish to state to Your Excellency that this Committee has seen with the greatest satisfaction that some governments have included in their replies considerations concerning the nature and scope of [somewhat garbled here] recommendation that they reiterate the proposals contained implicitly or explicitly therein, of which at no moment this Committee has lost sight, such as that the proceeding advised of consultation and interchange of information previous to recognition preserves the free decision of each government expressed by means of its competent constitutional organs; that it will have an application limited as is stated in its text to the duration of the present armed conflict; and that it constitutes a generalization for the entire continent of practices usual between neighboring or directly interested countries in the recognition of a new government, motivated by the solidarity established by the Pan American engagements for the defense of the hemisphere.
I have the honor to communicate to you furthermore that by the air route I am sending complete texts [of] replies received.21
With distinguished consideration for Your Excellency,
- For text, see Foreign Relations, 1943, vol. v, p. 35, or Second Annual Report, p. 88.↩
- Brackets throughout this telegram appear in the file translation.↩
- Not printed.↩