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File No. 763.72119/360

The Minister in Uruguay ( Jeffery ) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
Montevideo , January 12, 1917, 3 p.m.
[Received January 12, 3 p.m.]

Communication received at the Legation, January 9, 10 a.m., from Brum, Minister for Foreign Affairs in Uruguay, in reply to peace note of President Wilson: [Page 220]

I wish to indicate the sympathy with which Uruguay looks upon all questions that, having the good will of the belligerents, will tend to stop this state of war and initiate the reign of peace and right among all the nations of the world.

Jeffery