818.6363/99: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Costa Rica (Thurston)
Washington, December 31,
1921—1 p.m.
50. Your December 24, 1 p.m. The Department has given no such assurances as you mention.
If corporation desires that representations be made, request Foreign Office to state what justification there is for demand that questions in dispute with Costa Rican Oil Corporation be arbitrated otherwise than as provided in corporation’s concession. Add that arbitrary cancellation concession would presumably result in filing of international claim to which Department would necessarily give careful consideration.
Hughes