715.1715/1384: Telegram
The Representative of the President (Corrigan) to the Secretary of State
[Received 3:53 p.m.]
6. Reply received from Dr. Rodríguez, the Venezuelan member of the Mediation Commission, who considers that the trip suggested in my telegram is not advisable at present. He believes that Zúñiga Montúfar will be opposed to such a visit and if made by us only will create friction with the Costa Rican Government.
The following is a portion of the telegram from the Legation at Bogotá transmitting Rodríguez’s answer to my telegram.
“Rodríguez personally considers that the best method for the present is for the representatives of Costa Rica and Venezuela in Washington to try all possible means with the Department of State to persuade the Government of Honduras of the advisablity of accepting the plan of mediation which is now being discussed. In this way he considers that the Governments of Venezuela and the United States would not expose themselves to the possibility of being in an equivocal position in the event that the visit to the two capitals should prove ineffective. He considers that as you will soon be in Caracas a final decision can then be reached between you and Gil Borges.”15
No reply has been received from Costa Rican Foreign Minister.
- Venezuelan Minister for Foreign Affairs.↩