Office of the Historian

818.014C/115: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Costa Rica (Hornibrook)

Washington, November 13, 1939—7 p.m.

63. Your despatch no. 938, October 30, 1939.4 There has been no change in the position of this Government regarding the possible purchase of Cocos Island, as stated in the Department’s instruction no. 34 of January 4, 1938.5 If the question of purchase of the Island is again raised with you or any member of the Legation, you should be guided accordingly.

Hull
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. Foreign Relations, 1938, vol. v, p. 467.↩