Office of the Historian

715.1715/779C: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Venezuela (Nicholson)49

Washington, October 23, 1937—3 p.m.

59. Please inform the Minister for Foreign Affairs that President Roosevelt has designated Dr. Frank P. Corrigan50 as his Special Representative to meet with the representatives of Venezuela and Costa Rica in the joint tender of good offices in the boundary dispute between Honduras and Nicaragua.

Following informal conversations with the diplomatic representatives of Venezeula and Costa Rica in Washington this Government has inquired of the Governments of Nicaragua and Honduras if it would be agreeable to them to name a representative to meet with the representatives of the three Governments associated in the tender of good offices in San José, Costa Rica, on about November 1st.

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  1. The same, October 23, 3 p.m., to the Minister in Costa Rica as telegram No. 36.↩
  2. Dr. Corrigan, then at the Department of State, was the American Minister to Panama.↩