417.00/339: Telegram

The Chargé in Nicaragua (Hanna) to the Secretary of State

207. Department’s telegram number 110, July 27, 1 p.m. The Minister for Foreign Affairs has notified me formally that the Nicaraguan Legation will appoint Mr. Stanley American member of the Provisional Claims Commission at a salary of ten thousand dollars annually and expenses going to and returning from Nicaragua.

The decree creating the Commission and naming its members will be published soon.92 This Government would appreciate information concerning the probable date of Mr. Stanley’s arrival here.

Hanna
  1. See La Gaceta, No. 204, September 11, 1929, for presidential decrees naming J. S. Stanley, president of the Provisional Claims Commission, and Ignacio Suarez, Enoc Aguado and Mariano Arguello V., Conservative member, Liberal member, and first lawyer, respectively (417.00/365).