{"id":99342,"date":"2020-06-16T10:50:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T17:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=99342"},"modified":"2020-06-16T10:53:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T17:53:14","slug":"u-s-embassy-note-to-guyana-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-september-16-1977","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=99342","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Embassy note to Guyana Ministry of Foreign Affairs, September 16, 1977"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a California Superior Court ruling on August 26, 1977, which awarded preliminary custody of John Victor Stoen to his mother, Grace Stoen, the Stoens\u2019 attorney Jeffrey Haas flew to Guyana to seek enforcement of the order. On September 6, the Guyana Supreme Court issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=13822\">writ of habeas corpus<\/a> ordering Jim Jones to produce the child in a Guyanese court. The Temple declined to accept service of the writ, much less abide by its order, whereupon the Supreme Court declared John Victor a ward of the court and said it would consider contempt charges against Jones. According to Haas, however \u2013 and apparently to the U.S. Embassy \u2013 the Guyanese government \u201cissued instructions of the court order not be implemented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[This document is the Embassy\u2019s note of concern to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs \u201cover this apparent intervention on the part of the Government\u201d into the matter. While the US government insisted throughout the process that it maintained neutrality on issues of child custody in foreign countries, especially when both disputants were Americans, members of the Temple consistently claimed the Embassy favored the Stoens. This note may have given ammunition to that claim.<\/p>\n<p><strong>U.S. Embassy note to Guyana Ministry of Foreign Affairs<\/strong><br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/jvs-77-1a.pdf\"><strong>PDF<\/strong><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=99344\"><strong>Text<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a California Superior Court ruling on August 26, 1977, which awarded preliminary custody of John Victor Stoen to his mother, Grace Stoen, the Stoens\u2019 attorney Jeffrey Haas flew to Guyana to seek enforcement of the order. On September 6, the Guyana Supreme Court issued a writ of habeas corpus ordering Jim Jones to produce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":99337,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-99342","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99347,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99342\/revisions\/99347"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}