723.2515/761
The Secretary of State to the Chilean Ambassador (Mathieu)
Aide-Mémoire
The Secretary of State has noted the memorandum left with him on the twelfth instant by the Ambassador of Chile.
Referring to the possible recourse to the good offices of the United States mentioned therein, the Secretary of State is glad to state, as he informed the Chilean Ambassador yesterday, that the Government of the United States is willing to do all that it properly can to facilitate an adjustment of this long standing controversy, and believing it very desirable that a definite solution thereof should be found, will be pleased, in accordance with its well defined policy, to lend its aid toward such a settlement in any manner acceptable to both Governments concerned.
The Secretary of State understands that it is not desired that any negotiations should be had with the Peruvian Government in connection with this matter until the Department has been advised with respect to the result of the steps which the Chilean Government now has in contemplation.