723.2515/345c: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Brazil (Morgan)
You are instructed immediately to visit the Minister for Foreign Affairs and inform him that under the direct instructions of the President of the United States the following instructions have been sent to the American Ambassador in Santiago and to the American Minister in Lima:
[Here follow the first three paragraphs of the Department’s telegram, December 4, to the Ambassador in Chile, printed on page 126.]
You may state that this Government trusts that the Government of Brazil will see its way clear to instruct its representatives in Santiago and Lima to advise the Chilean and Peruvian Foreign Offices respectively, to pursue a policy of moderation and avoid any widening of the breach of the relations between Chile and Peru until a friendly settlement of the questions between the two countries may be arrived at.