715.1715/1431: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Representative of the President (Corrigan)
48. The following message has been sent to the Embassy at Bogota:
“It will be recalled that the Venezuelan Government has been reluctant to authorize Dr. Rodríguez to confer in San José with Dr. Zúñiga Montúfar and Dr. Corrigan regarding the Nicaraguan-Honduran boundary dispute. The Department has just been informed by the Venezuelan Ambassador here that the Venezuelan Government now has no objection whatever to a meeting of the mediators in San José whenever deemed necessary, and has been requested to communicate this information to the interested parties.
“Would you please take suitable occasion to inform Dr. Rodríguez [Page 164] of the foregoing, adding, however, that in the judgment of this Government it would seem preferable to defer a meeting of the mediators until after outcome of the visit of President Somoza to Honduras is known.”
You may desire to communicate this information to Dr. Zúñiga Montúfar.