714.1515/985: Telegram
The Minister in Honduras (Summerlin) to the Secretary of State
[Received 4:11 p.m.]
117. Your telegram No. 89, November 29, 7 p.m. After repeating the substance of my note, the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs’ note of November 25 continues as follows:
“In reply I am gratified to inform Your Excellency, under instructions of His Excellency the President of the Republic, that my Government will confer upon its delegate the most ample power to examine informally, in a frank and friendly manner, with the delegate of Guatemala, all appropriate methods for such settlement of the controversy, without the conditions and reservations which the Chancellery under my charge made in its note of the 6th instant,47 which it can but maintain, being an obstacle to his freedom of action, so that the object of the conference may not be defeated and that, explaining in the conference the points of view of Honduras in which are included the said conditions and reservations, and duly appreciating those of Guatemala, a solution may be arrived at satisfactory to the two Republics; but it is understood that if my Government considers that solution prejudicial to the rights of Honduras it is not obligated to accept it as Your Excellency with such ability expresses it.
Begging Your Excellency to inform the Honorable Government of the United States of America of the above I avail myself of this opportunity, et cetera.”
Repeated to Guatemala.