Office of the Historian

710.11/200½

President Wilson to the Secretary of State

Washington, 5 April, 1915 .

My Dear Mr. Secretary: I shall await the note from Chile with deep interest.

Will you not be kind enough to have a talk with Ambassador Naón and ascertain whether he got the impression from House that the Chilean Ambassador seems to have got, that we would not propose our treaty to the other countries of South and Central America unless all three of the A. B. C. approved. I remember nothing of the kind, and think Mr. Suárez must be mistaken.

I think it would be wise, as you suggest, to approach the Peruvian government very tactfully and ascertain whether they are willing to treat matters in dispute between them and Chile as the enclosed despatch suggests.5

Faithfully Yours,

W. W.
  1. Probably the despatch from Santiago mentioned in the preceding document.↩