715.1715/751a: Circular telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to All American Diplomatic Missions in the American Republics Except Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Venezuela
You are requested to seek an immediate interview with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and to hand him a note incorporating the following statement: [Page 93]
“The Government of the United States in association with the Governments of Costa Rica and Venezuela has today tendered its good offices to the Governments of Honduras and Nicaragua with a view to facilitating a pacific solution of the boundary controversy which has regrettably arisen between these two American nations.
The Declaration of Principles of Inter-American Solidarity and Cooperation unanimously adopted by the American Republics at the Conference for the Maintenance of Peace held in Buenos Aires47 declares that ‘every act susceptible of disturbing the peace of America affects each and every one of them’. In accordance with the spirit of that declaration my Government is taking this immediate opportunity of advising the Government of Argentina (or the Government addressed) of the good offices which this Government jointly with the Governments of Costa Rica and Venezuela is extending to the Governments of Honduras and of Nicaragua and of its hope that these friendly services may assist in facilitating a peaceful settlement of the dispute which has arisen between these two Republics.”
- See Department of State Conference Series No. 33, pp. 18, 227.↩