File No. 723.2515/135.
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Buenos Aires, April 12, 1910.
Referring to my March 28 and your April 1. The Argentine Minister for Foreign Affairs says the Brazilian Minister for Foreign Affairs sent for the Argentine Chargé d’Affaires and said that Argentina was not approached earlier by Brazil in the Tacna-Arica question because no plan formulated; that if Chile refused mediation of the United States it might be necessary for Argentina and Brazil to substitute Mexico for the United States, and that it might be better for each country to mediate separately. The Argentine Minister for Foreign Affairs has notified all parties that he will act only in conjunction with the United States although not objecting to Brazil joining also.