710 Conference W and PW/2–545: Telegram
The Chargé in Panama (Donnelly) to the Secretary of State
[Received 10:15 p.m.]
117. Embassy’s telegram 109, February 2, 2 p.m.50 The Foreign Minister51 today furnished the Embassy an informal and unofficial memorandum regarding points that the Panamanian delegation wishes to discuss with our delegation during the conference in Mexico. No mention is made by the Foreign Minister of resolutions which the Panamanian delegation may present before the conference as a whole.
The five subjects of interest which the Foreign Minister wishes to discuss with our delegation are: (1) reduction by maritime conferences of freight rates on cargoes for Panama (2) a loan of 10 million dollars from the Export-Import Bank to be used for the construction of a national airport in Panama which already has been started (3) starting work and studies on the construction of a concrete highway in the Panamanian section of the Pan American Highway, the Government of Panama to contribute one third of the cost according to agreement and the construction by the Public Roads Administration of the United States of the concrete highway to Chepo (4) the return of amounts charted to the excess collected for water rates as concerns capital and interest, from the date from which the American Congress authorized the transfer to Panama of certain water and sewer systems to the cities of Colon and Panamá52 and (5) facilities to acquire [Page 26] in the United States as soon as possible construction materials and equipment for use in the Public Works Program of Panama.
- Not printed.↩
- Roberto Jiménez.↩
- For documentation on the water and sewer problems, see Foreign Relations, 1944, vol. vii, pp. 1425 ff.↩