714.1515/711: Telegram
The Minister in Guatemala (Geissler) to the Secretary of State
[Received 8:55 p.m.]
81. The Minister for Foreign Affairs has orally indicated that he desires to know the names of the 15 jurists submitted by the United States for the permanent list from which members of the Central American Tribunal are to be chosen. I have a copy of an announcement given by the Department to the press September 26, 1925, giving 15 names headed by James M. Beck.28 Is that list still intact?
Mr. Salazar says that he would also appreciate it if the American Legation in Tegucigalpa would let me know for his unofficial information the names of such persons as have been communicated under the convention to the Honduran Foreign Office by the other signatories including Honduras.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs told me confidentially that Guatemala intends to request Cuba to submit a list of five names under article 3 of the convention.
Repeated to Honduras.
- The persons designated were: James M. Beck; Edwin M. Borchard; J. Reuben Clark, Jr.; William C. Dennis; David Jayne Hill; Manley O. Hudson; Charles Cheney Hyde; Nathan L. Miller; John Bassett Moore; Edwin B. Parker; Jackson H. Ralston; Jesse S. Reeves; James Brown Scott; George W. Wickersham; and George Grafton Wilson.↩