723.2515PC/6a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Chile (Collier)41

12. Inform Chilean authorities that the President has today appointed General John J. Pershing as President of the Plebiscitary Commission. The Department hopes to be able to advise you in a few days of the President’s nominee on the Special Commission to determine the boundaries of Tacna-Arica.42

Kellogg
  1. The same, mutatis mutandis, to the Ambassador in Peru, as Department’s telegram No. 21 (file No. 723.2515PC/9a).
  2. By telegrams of Mar. 27, 5 p.m., the Ambassadors in Chile and Peru were instructed to inform the Governments to which they were accredited that Gen. Jay J. Morrow, U. S. Army (retired), ex-Governor of the Panama Canal Zone, had been appointed American member of the Special Boundary Commission (file No. 723.2515PC/15a,b).