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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [56 STAT. The Secretary of State to the Honduran Minister DEPARTMENT OF STATE WASHINGTON October 26, 1942 SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your kind note of Sep- tember 9, 1942, in which you, under the instructions and with the authorization of your Government, requested the cooperation of the Government of the United States in the construction of the Inter- American Highway in Honduras, and offered the assurances required 65 tat.so. by Public Law 375 of December 26, 1941 in connection with such cooperation. I take pleasure in informing you that the assurances which you offered are satisfactory to this Government. It is consequently the intention of this Government to extend to the Honduran Government the cooperation envisaged by the law, subject to the ratification by the Honduran Congress of the contract mentioned in your note. I understand that the Honduran Congress is to convene December 5, and that the loan contract will be presented to it for ratification im- mediately thereafter. As your note indicates, the survey and construction work author- ized by the law shall be under the administration of the Public Roads Administration, Federal Works Agency. It is understood that the competent Honduran authorities will make a subsidiary agreement with the Administration to carry out this provision of the law. I am much gratified at the prospect that through this cooperative undertaking it will be possible to complete the Inter-American High- way through Honduras. Transportation facilities will be improved, new lands and new natural resources developed, additional markets opened, and local economic conditions benefitted through the useful expenditure of money which this project envisages. Both of our countries should happily profit therefrom. I sincerely trust that the Highway will serve not only as a link to increase material intercourse between our nations but also as another bond in the close friendship which unites us. Accept, Sir, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration. For the Secretary of State: SUMNER WELLES The Honorable Senor Dr. Don JULIAN R. CACERES, Minister of Honduras.

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