816.01/354: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Nicaragua (Lane)
9. Your 4, January 10, 5 p.m., penultimate paragraph. We strongly doubt the advisability of Mexico City as meeting place. As long as Mexico adheres strictly to the Estrada Doctrine (and there is no indication she will do otherwise) the holding of the Conference in Mexico would be tantamount to abandoning the principle (which the Central American states themselves are understood to be desirous of continuing in workable form) of discouraging revolutionary movements through the non-recognition of Governments coming into power by revolution. Moreover, Ubico’s antipathy for Mexico would raise a difficulty.
As regards Panama, if the Central American states should agree on that city for a meeting place, we would not perceive any objection.