760D.61/701: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Panama (Muccio)
120. Your 150, December 9, 1 p.m. The following message has been sent to the Minister for Foreign Affairs:
[Here follows text of telegram of December 12 to the Panamanian Minister for Foreign Affairs, printed supra.]
It is desired that you find early opportunity discreetly to inform Dr. Garay that it would seem preferable that concurrence in the statement be arranged by direct communication of Panama with the other American Governments on the basis of the text which he might draw up. In as much as the Pan American Union has never been granted political functions it would not seem proper to trust to the Governing Board the drafting of or action upon the proposed statement.