Office of the Historian

723.2515/1318c: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Chile (Collier)30

Washington, March 5, 1925—8 p.m.

7. The President yesterday signed Tacna-Arica decision. It is being printed and will be handed to the Chilean and Peruvian Ambassadors by the President at 10 o’clock Monday morning, March 9. A 12,000 word informal summary will be cabled to you before midnight tonight.31 You will please arrange for its immediate decoding taking every possible precaution that no inkling whatsoever of its contents becomes known to anyone outside the commissioned personnel of your mission. You will arrange an audience with the Minister for Foreign Affairs for Monday, March 9, at a time corresponding to 10 o’clock A.M. Washington time to hand him a copy of the summary.

Kellogg
  1. The same to the Ambassador in Peru as Department’s telegram No. 12.↩
  2. Not printed; see complete text of the award, infra.↩