Office of the Historian

710.11/202½

President Wilson to the Secretary of State

Washington, 22 April, 1915 .

My Dear Mr. Secretary: Just a preliminary word about the Chilean memorandum.7

I shall cable to House to-day to ask whether he intended to convey the impression the Chilean Ambassador received.8

My present judgment is, that it is best to draft something to which Argentina and Brazil will warmly subscribe and then go ahead with that, leaving Chile free to decide whether she will come in or not, either now or at some future time. I do not think that it would be wise to trim and dilute it to suit her special and singular case.

Faithfully Yours,

W. W.
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. See letter of Apr. 3, 1915, from the Secretary of State to President Wilson, p. 475.↩