File No. 811.33/146
The Ambassador in Chile ( Shea) to the Secretary of State
[Telegram]
Santiago,
August 9, 1917, 4 p.m.
[Received 9.10 p.m.]
[Received 9.10 p.m.]
My cipher telegram August 8, 4 p.m.1 The President to-day informed me that after a consultation with his Ministers he had decided that to invite the American Fleet to visit Valparaiso before it reached the Pacific would not be a neutral act. He remarked that Chile wished to follow the example of the United States in pursuing a neutral policy until directly wronged. He again said, however, that once the fleet reached the Pacific he would be glad to invite it to Valparaiso.
Shea
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