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, ' -,"';' ""' CA) w U't 17 and confirmed by agreement between our Govern-, ments.24 In, answer thereto by note of January 19, 1940,' the Mexican Ambassador expressed thc satisfaction of the Government of Mexico that the problem of j;he international rivei's was at last on its way to solution and stated further: -'q., .' [T] he Government of Mexico suggests that therc be taken into consideration the inevitable and beneficial development of those regions of both countries which are capable of bcing irrigatcd by the watcrs of the I II' inte1'llational rivers, which development may in the , future give rise to more important uses than at present , ,and, accordingly, suggcsts also that the reports of I ,the Commissioners not be limited to the present uses ,,' but that, in addition, they embrace the projects and prospects for possible future uses . . .. In this way the said reports may serve as a basis for an agreement or treaty to settle in full and definitively the just dis- tribution and the uses of the waters of the inter- national rivers. . . .Z5 . In response to this suggestion the United States replied that it preferred not to extend the activities of the com- missioners so as to include possible future uses of the waters of the inte1'llational rivers in question.z, ,As a result the proposal of the United States was droppcd and further negotiations concerning watcrs of the Colorado River were merged in efforts to arrive at a general settle- ment of outstanding questions between the United ,States and Mexico.'7 . In 1941 the Government of Mcxico again expressed its desire to enter into a treaty which should fully take into :1' 24 Foreign Relations of the United States,_V~l. V, 1940, 1929-30. z.rd. nt 1031. 26 Id. nt 1034-35. 27 Id. nt 1039. "_,.,---__.~~~."-,,.._-'..,. ';""'_'~"'__:"._ ,__ ',;"'"v" !"; ~! .