710.11/198½

The Secretary of State to the Chilean Ambassador ( Suárez-Mujica )2

My Dear Mr. Ambassador: I am enclosing, for your confidential examination, the draft of a proposed convention,3 copies of which are being sent also to the Ambassadors of Argentine and Brazil.

I would appreciate it very much if you would call at my house at six o’clock this evening so that we may go over the language together before the proposed convention is forwarded to your respective countries. I am requesting you to call at the house instead of the Department in order to avoid publicity, if possible.

I am [etc.]

W. J. Bryan
  1. The same, mutatis mutandis, to the Argentine and Brazilian Ambassadors.
  2. Enclosure as in President Wilson’s letter of Jan. 29, 1915, supra.