File No. 723.2515/110.
The Acting Secretary of State to the American Chargé d’Affaires at Lima.
Washington, April 15, 1910.
Sir: The Department acknowledges the receipt of your despatch No. 335, of March 14, 1910, in which you relate a conversation which you had with the Peruvian Minister for Foreign Affairs on the subject of the strained relations between Peru and Chile growing out of the Tacna-Arica controversy, and wherein you make observations in regard to the intervention of other American Powers with a view to an amicable settlement of the dispute.
Referring to your suggestion that some direct indication of the Department’s views on the intervention of neutral third powers in the Tacna-Arica question would be of the greatest value, you are informed that the Department has recently indicated its willingness to join with Argentina and Brazil, at the suggestion of the latter, in an attempt to see a solution reached of this troublesome dispute.
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