Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1919, Volume I

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The Peruvian Legation to the Department of State

Washington, December 9, 1918.

Memorandum

The Minister of Peru is instructed to advise The Honourable The Secretary of State that the Government of Peru accepts the mediation of the President of the United States, and that the President of Peru will shortly communicate this acceptance by cable³⁶ in reply to the message of the President of the United States.

The Government of Peru, however, does not desire that the mediation should assume the character of an American Continental mediation.

It has accepted the mediation of the President of the United States, because the Government of Peru considers the President of the United States to be the initiator and the supporter of those principles which are to be asserted at the general Peace Conference.

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