CESSION CLAIMS
BRITISH HONDURAS LAND TREATY BREACH ALLEGED GUATEMALAN ACCUSATION AMERICAN MOVE ASKED (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. July 24, 9 a m.) MEXICO CITY, July 22. The entire Mexican press gives great prominence l to-day to reports that the Guatemalan Government had asked for the intervention of the United States Department to obtain from Britain the . cession of British Honduras under 'the terms of the A nglo-Gaut ema lam Treaty of 1869. Guatemala, it is reported, claims that Britain violated the pact.
The stories bear Washington date lines, but it is commonly reported that they were written in Mexico City, inspired by the Mexican Government, which, in the event of the cession, would claim a third of the territory for What are vaguely termed historical and international reasons.
Foreign observers here consider that Mexico is merely jockeying for position in (the oil controversy. The general impression is. that the Mexican Government has served notice on the British Government that any too strenuous insistence into its present intransigent attitude to the oil question might result in Mexico making things very hot for Britain in Honduras. ■
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19997, 24 July 1939, Page 5
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