723.2515/361a: Circular telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ministers in Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Uruguay
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: “You are instructed to hand the following statement to the President of the country to which you are accredited.
[Here follows the statement embodied in the first three paragraphs of the Department’s telegram, December 4, to the Ambassador in Chile, printed on page 126.]”
You may inquire of the Government to which you are accredited whether it has taken any steps to approach the Governments of Chile and Peru, counselling moderation in their actions. In case it has not done so, you may state that this Government trusts that the Government to which you are accredited 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.