714.1515/565: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Guatemala (Geissler)
14. Department’s telegram No. 11, February 21, 8 p.m.94 A telegram has just been received by the Department from the Honduran [Page 719] Foreign Minister95 with reference to the Honduran proposal described in Department’s telegram under reference. The telegram states that Guatemala appears on new pretexts again indefinitely to defer the question so that the difficulties would stand and at the risk of giving birth to some other conflict with worse consequences. In the telegram the good offices of the United States are requested in order that the dispute may finally be settled.
Please discuss informally and discreetly with the appropriate authorities the present differences between Guatemala and Honduras, and while not offering at this time formal mediation or good offices, try to ascertain why no reply has been made as yet to the Honduran proposal, and what reply the Government of Guatemala intends to make. You may add that it is the sincere desire of the Department that the Government of Guatemala will accept unqualifiedly the proposal for an inspection of the disputed territory and an agreement to proceed without delay to a final settlement of the boundary dispute.