763.72119/3412a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Peru ( McMillin )

Repeat to Quito, LaPaz, and Montevideo.

For your own information and in order to place you in a position to answer any inquiries which may be made of you by the Government of the country to which you are accredited, in regard to its presence at the Peace Conference but not for formal communication to Foreign Office, the Department sends you the following:

The question of the representation at the peace conference of those countries which have broken relations with the Imperial German Government [Page 225] but have not declared war, has not as yet been discussed by the associated governments. Until such discussion is held and some decision arrived at, it will be impossible to make any statement in this connection.

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