File No. 763.72112/433
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Peru ( McMillin )
Washington , December 18, 1914.
No. 40]
Sir: The Department is in receipt of your despatch No. 100, dated the 10th ultimo,1 enclosing a copy of a note and memorandum received by you from the Peruvian Minister for Foreign Affairs “relative to the urgency of an agreement among the republics of the American Continent intended to reduce the great injuries which their foreign trade suffers through the hostilities undertaken by the warships of the belligerent nations of Europe on the American coasts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.”
As it is understood that the Pan-American Neutrality Commission has been organized to consider the suggestions of the various American governments as to the maintenance of their neutrality, a specific reply to the Peruvian Foreign Minister’s memorandum on this subject does not appear to be called for at this time.
I am [etc.]