815.00/3114: Telegram
The President’s Personal Representative in Honduras (Welles) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 24—2:45 p.m.]
10. My 9, April 2 [21]. The initial conference mentioned in my cipher telegram under reference took place with the delegates present at 3 o’clock this afternoon on the U.S.S. Milwaukee. In the course of the conference all the articles of the preliminary pact were agreed to unanimously. Each faction presented two candidates for the Provisional Presidency. The revolution’s delegates presented the names of Dr. Fausto Davila and General Vicente Tosta. Dictatorship presented the names of Dr. Alberto Ucles and Dr. Federico [Page 312] Canalerz. It was determined to postpone consideration of these candidates until tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock.
I beg to request information at the earliest opportunity concerning the replies received from the Governments of the other Central American States with regard to the joint mediation proposed in connection with the negotiation of the final convention between the two factions here.