Office of the Historian

818.00/12–1648: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Embassy in Costa Rica

Washington, December 16, 1948.

276. Committee established Dec 14 by COAS leaving Washington 10 p. m. Dec 16 USAF C–47 scheduled reach San José 6:30 p. m. Dec 17, stopping Jamaica about 11 a. m. Members of Committee are Ambassadors to COAS Bello (Brazil), Villegas (Colombia), Quintanilla (Mexico), Lavalle (Perú),1 Daniels (USA) accompanied by six advisers and PAU secretariat of four, totalling 15. Daniels accompanied by Bennett and Colonel T. A. Sapia-Bosch, technical advisers. [Page 542] Unless C.R. Govt lodges all at same place, arrange accommodations Daniels, Bennett and Sapia-Bosch.

Lovett
  1. Juan Bautista de Lavalle, Peruvian Ambassador, withdrew from the group shortly before its departure from Washington, on instructions from his government, which declined to participate in the mission on grounds that the Costa Rican Government had not recognized the new Peruvian regime.↩