Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1917, Supplement 1, The World War

File No. 763.72119/928

The Ambassador in Argentina ( Stimson) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Buenos Aires, November 11, 1917, midnight.
[Received November 12, 2.25 a.m.]

President of Argentina is urging congress of neutrals in January on chanceries of countries below named. Ministers, Brazil and Uruguay informed me to-night that new President of Bolivia would accept, [that] Uruguay will also because she is such a close neighbor, but that Chile wishes first to see program before accepting; Ecuador likely to follow Peru. Brazil alone excluded.

Stimson