Sun GW INDEX BUREN zile epor 14 FEB isti 9115 PEDITION DIVISION OF LATIN AMERICAN AFFAIRS February 16, 1911.
FEB 23 1911 GTV DEPARTMENT OF STATE It has long been notorious that the Central American Representatives, some of whom intrigue so STATE industiously with certain American lawyers who receive money from Central American Governments, are accustomed to meet at the Arlington Hotel for dis711. 13 cussions and intrigues frequently taking the form of INDEX BUREAU instigation of one another to suspicion and obstruction of the policies of the United States as affecting Central America.
Doctor Castrillo, Minister of Nicaragua, recently came to the Department in a towering rage and reported that the representatives of Salvador, Guate 911 FILED mala and Costa Rica had been upbrading him and the Minister of Honduras on the ground that they were selling out to the Yankees.
The reference was to the efforts the United States is making to put licaragua and Honduras upon a basis of financial soundness and prosperity.
This morning when the Minister of Costa Rica called with his usual statement that he had no business and the usual sequel of spending fifteen or twenty minutes in vague talk, when he asked me how things were going in Honduras and expressed the great interest that they the Central American Ministers felt in the welfare of that country, carelessly remarked that things seemed to be going pretty well notwithstanding the Arlington Hotel anti American