Office of the Historian

819.51/956: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Panama (Flexer)

Washington, October 28, 1938—6 p.m.

61. Your 112, October 25, 9 a.m., second paragraph. You are requested to call on the Minister for Foreign Affairs and to say that this Government assumes that in view of Article III of the Convention of 1903,19 the Panamanian Government does not maintain that the recently enacted “guarantee bond” bill (more specifically Articles III and IV thereof) is applicable to deposits payable at a branch or agency of an American institution when such branch or agency is located in the Canal Zone.

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  1. Signed November 18, 1903, Foreign Relations, 1904, p. 543.↩