Office of the Historian

814.6463Em7/2a: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in Guatemala (Thurston)

Washington, January 18, 1919, 1 p.m.

For Ames. Electric Bond and Share Company, New York, as well as Pearsons and Company,15 interested in purchase Empresa Electrica de Guatemala. Is there any difficulty in effecting sale to one of these American Companies? Would it be advisable for first mentioned company send representative Guatemala immediately make investigations and submit bid for purchase.

Polk
  1. Pearson Engineering Corp., also of New York.↩