723.2515/431: Telegram
The Ambassador in Chile (Shea) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received 3.58 p.m.]
Department’s February 10th, noon.45 Instruction to interview the Minister referred to was carried out at the first opportunity. He was much annoyed and not pleased with the information; he assured me again that the difficulty was more economic than political, that there might be isolated cases where individuals were acting from other motives but that he believed Government officials had in [Page 151] all cases been instructed to preserve the peace. He promised to investigate the matter further. Since that time the Minister has been at his summer residence at Vina del Mar. The French Minister has invited me to go with him to see the Minister with respect to conditions there which he describes much the same as Hazeltine. I should like to be instructed as to whether I shall do this.46