723.2515/462: Telegram
The Ambassador in Chile (Shea) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received March 20, 10.27 a.m.]
Strictly confidential. Personal for Stabler from Robbins.
Your March 18, 6 p.m., private.48 Had long conversation with Edwards at dinner given for him Sunday last by his brother at Vina. He expressed great interest in the settlement of the Tacna Arica situation and said that it was his purpose to bring about if possible, settlement of this matter in the near future. He will not come from Valparaiso to Santiago until Monday, when he stated that he would call immediately at the Embassy. With reference to your former cables I told him that I should be glad to transmit any suggestions that he might wish to make to the Department on this situation. I therefore consider it wiser to wait his arrival here on Monday than to go to Valparaiso to confer with him. His entire attitude and the speeches made by him have shown his most earnest desire for Chile to join strongly with the Allies. He now states that he expects to return to his post at London via the United States in about two months.
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