711.1928/356: Telegram
The Minister in Panama (Summerlin)10 to the Secretary of State
[Received 5 p.m.]
48. With reference to article II of the proposed treaty, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs today showed me projects A and B, copies of which the Legation has not yet received. The Secretary stated that both projects are unacceptable to Panama and that Minister Alfaro had an appointment with President Roosevelt tomorrow, at which time Alfaro has been instructed to protest against these proposed drafts of article II and possibly to protest against the matter of deportees being barred from reentering the Canal Zone, and against the expression “interruption” of the corridor from Colon, as mentioned in article IX (b).
The Secretary asked my cooperation in obtaining a settlement satisfactory to Panama.
- George T. Summerlin presented his credentials on March 8, 1935.↩