Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1911

File No. 812.00/1800.

The American Minister to Chile to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Santiago, May 16, 1911.

The Chilean minister to Mexico telegraphs the minister for foreign affairs that it seems likely the revolution will succeed, and requests authority to lend his good offices should an opportunity to mediate offer. The minister for foreign affairs stated that such mediation will not be authorized unless perfectly acceptable to the United States. The Chilean chargé d’affaires, upon my suggestion, has been instructed by telegraph to ascertain the Department’s views.

Fletcher.