713.1311/273: Telegram
The Minister in Honduras (Lay) to the Secretary of State
[Received 9 p.m.]
20. Foreign Minister has just told me that in view of wishes of Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua and in deference to Sacasa’s apparent political difficulties, Honduran Government has considered it best to postpone opening of Conference at Costa Rica [Guatemala?] until late in April and that Honduras will not appoint delegates for these reasons. He said that there was little interest in the Conference, that he did not believe it would accomplish anything beneficial for Honduras unless a reciprocal trade treaty could be signed and ratified by all five countries that would replace the present free trade treaty between Honduras and Nicaragua and Honduras and Salvador, and he believes that Honduras would be unwilling to sign any Central American arbitration pact without reservation until Nicaragua abides by the [Page 447] Honduran-Nicaraguan boundary award of the King of Spain.23 The Foreign Minister intimated that he is not in accord with Ubico’s article on recognition of the proposed treaty.
Repeated to Central American missions.
- Award of December 23, 1906, British and Foreign State Papers, vol. c, p. 1096; see also Foreign Relations, 1918, pp. 11 ff. and ibid., 1931, vol. i, pp. 792 ff.↩