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President Wilson to the Secretary of State

My Dear Mr. Secretary: This seems to me excellent.10 I agree with you that it is wise to be explicit and that it is well to put these views in writing, as you have done.

I think it would be wise, however, to state that the provisions as to territory as you restate them in this letter are not definitively proposed (for we have not yet shown them to Argentine and Brazil, upon whose cooperation we are depending) but are formulated by way of suggestion of what we would be quite willing to discuss, if in that form they commended themselves to the Chilean government.

Faithfully Yours,

W. W.
  1. Draft of letter to the Chilean Ambassador; for the letter as sent, see infra.