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

The Secretary of State to the American Minister to Chile.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Department, of State,
Washington, May 18, 1911.

In reply to your telegram of the 16th, this Government is informed that both parties in Mexico are now engaged in direct negotiations. This would seem to make very improbable any request at present for mediation. The Department would, of course, have had no objection to the proffer of Chile’s good offices; on the contrary, it would welcome the inquiry of the minister for foreign affairs as a manifestation of the spirit of Chilean-American cooperation so highly valued by this Government.

Knox.