Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1906, (In two parts), Part I

The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Merry.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, July 17, 1906.

(Mr. Bacon congratulates Mr. Merry and all concerned on the armistice arranged for Wednesday. Instructs Mr. Merry to represent the United States’ interests in Costa Rica and Nicaragua if necessary, although it is understood that the negotiations are to be direct between representatives of the belligerents, the presence of Mr. Merry and the American representative to Guatemala, as well as the Mexican minister to Central America, being purely in an advisory and friendly capacity, and on the evidence of good will and cordial cooperation on the part of both the President of Mexico and President Roosevelt. Mr. Bacon states that Mr. Merry can not be too careful in avoiding any appearance of representing the views or policies of any other than our own country.)