Minister Combs to
the Secretary of State.
American Legation,
Lima, May 23,
1910.
No. 356.]Sir: I have the honor to forward by this mail,
but too late for the pouch or translation, a copy of the formal note of
acceptance of the Peruvian Government of the proposal of mediation.
I have, etc.,
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[Inclosure—Translation.]
The Minister of Foreign
Affairs to Minister Combs.
Lima, May 23,
1910.
No. 18.]Mr. Minister: I have had the honor to
receive the valued communication of your excellency, under date of
the 22d instant, designed for the purpose of tendering the good
offices of the Governments of the United States of America, the
Argentine Republic, and Brazil with a view of preventing a
disturbance of the peace between the Republics of Peru and
Ecuador.
My Government has given careful consideration to the declarations
which the three, aforesaid Governments have spontaneously and
jointly expressed and appreciating at its full value the lofty and
noble purpose which has inspired them, accepts with the greatest
satisfaction the kind offices offered.
My Government does not hesitate to declare its acceptance in this
manner not only because of its own feeling toward this noble purpose
and of the deference it owes to the three great American Republics
with which it maintains cordial and honorable relations of
friendship, but also because it holds that the initiative formulated
implies an act that will convey to the mind of the royal arbiter
chosen to settle our boundary-dispute with Ecuador a new evidence of
the respect that the fulfillment of his high office merits.
I fulfill likewise the pleasant duty of expressing our sincere
gratitude for the proposition transmitted, which must assuredly
strike a responsive chord in this continent.
I take, etc.,
