817.812/478: Telegram

The Minister in Costa Rica ( Davis ) to the Secretary of State

43. Department’s telegram 21, June 12, 6 p.m. The Costa Rican Minister for Foreign Affairs has replied as follows to my note requesting consent to a proposed survey:

“I am pleased to state that my Government has no objection to the permission requested and for that reason is disposed to grant it.”

Full report by mail.

Davis

[“Under the command of Maj. Dan I. Sultan, of the Engineer Corps of the United States Army, field work on the survey of the Nicaraguan route began on August 29, 1929, and, except for a continuation of the hydrographic and meteorological work, was finished before July 1, 1931.”—The United States and Nicaragua, a Survey of the Relations from 1909 to 1932, page 113.

Other documents concerning the canal survey are printed in House Document No. 139, 72d Cong., 1st sess.: United States Army Inter-oceanic Canal Board.]