Aide Mémoire to the Brazilian Embassy.1
Washington, December 19, 1910.
The tripartite mediation offered under the provision of The Hague convention intended to provide honorable avoidance of impending war having thus far successfully accomplished its high purpose, and by the precise terms of the mediation the mediating powers now finding themselves placed at the disposition of the Governments of Ecuador and Peru to facilitate by their good offices and wisest counsel in the exercise of the high advisory function of mediators the settlement of their boundary question, the Government of the United States, impressed with the difficulty and importance of that question, would be grateful to learn the views of the Governments of the Argentine Republic and of Brazil as to whether the three powers could now render as mediators any more valuable service to the Governments directly interested than to advise them to refer the whole question to The Hague court of arbitration, created for the final settlement of just such disputes, under the same convention by virtue of another provision of which the mediators’ action has proved so efficacious.
- Same to Argentine chargé.↩