Enclosure.
In No. 333.
Your Excellency to explain the present status of the matter and quote the second communication mentioned, recommending the support of the latter. have nothing to add, Mr. Minister, to what expressed in my telegram of the day before yesterday, in which assured Your Excellency that Nicaragua, not even invited to the Conference before mentioned, could under no circumstances permit that another country even discuss, much less decide, questions which intimately concern its sovereign powers.
Having made this decisive statement, Your Excellency will permit me a few observations relative to your telegraphic message.
It seriously calls the attention of my Government, in the first place, to the deliberate exclusion of Nicaragua by Sal.
vador from a Central Americans conference in which it was proposed to consider private matters of this country; and, in the second place, while Your Excellency in the second communication addressed to the other Republics speaks of lending aid to Nicaragua in order to resolve its political and economic problems, when you address my Government, as the effect of the interpellation, you declare the object of the conference when you refer to the vital interests of Honduras and Salvador, which, in Your Excellency judgment, are deeply affected by the pending negotiations between Nicaragua and the United States.
This might very well indicate that a special thought has entered into the project of Salvador, and to that, perhaps, is due the exclusion of Nicaragua in the first invitation, which