763.72119/3194: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Uruguay ( Jeffery )
Your December 20, 4 p.m.5 You may inform Minister for Foreign Affairs that the American Commission regards with sympathy the desire of the South and Central American States, which declared war on, or broke relations with, Germany to be represented at the Peace Conference; and while no assurances can be given in advance of the preliminary meeting of the delegates of the Great Powers, the American Commission will, at the appropriate moment, extend its good offices on behalf of its Latin-American neighbors falling within the foregoing categories. If your advice is asked, the advisability might be informally suggested of sending one or more delegates to Paris to be on the spot in case Uruguay is to be accorded representation at the Conference.