Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1939, The American Republics, Volume V

715.1715/1408: Telegram

The Representative of the President (Corrigan) to the Secretary of State

Panama, March 20, 1939—4 p.m.
[Received 6:48 p.m.]

29. The following telegram has been received from Bogotá:

“Dr. Rodríguez requests you be informed that he shares your view referred to visit of Ocheltree to Tegucigalpa. Braden.”²¹

As all three mediators now concur I shall instruct Ocheltree to proceed to Tegucigalpa as authorized in telegraphic instruction number 14, February 17, 8 p.m., for purpose suggested in my despatch 683 dated March 16²² without the note unless Department instructs otherwise.

Corrigan

21. Spruille Braden, Ambassador in Colombia.
22. Not printed. It was proposed that Mr. Ocheltree go to Tegucigalpa with technical information to dispel any doubts in the minds of Honduran officials as to the justice of the Mediation Commission’s request.