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 59 STAT.] PANAMA-GENERAL RELATIONS-MAY 18, 1942 It gives me the greatest honor to inform Your Excellency that after subsequent negotiations a mutual agreement has happily been reached between our two Governments respecting the twelve points as they were set forth in Your Excellency's note which becomes a most important document for us and for future generations since it embodies the acceptance by the Government of the United States of the equitable and just aspirations of the Government of my country and, at the same time, makes it obvious that the Government of Panama is prepared at any time to give complete and full cooperation to the Government of the United States in the defense of the inter- ocean route which has divided the Panamanian isthmus in two. This document constitutes an eloquent and noble example to the world that our Governments walk by the path of the democratic life in close and intimate brotherhood, thus satisfying the desires of a real Pan American union expressed by the colossal figure of Sim6n Bolivar more than one hundred years ago and so eloquently and brilliantly renewed in this era by the eminent personality of Franklin Delano Roosevelt through his Good Neighbor policy. Accept, Excellency, once more, the sincere testimonies of my highest consideration and esteem. E. JAN GUAiRIA Ambassador His Excellency CORDELL HULL, Secretary of State of the United States, Washington,D. 0. 1297

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