Office of the Historian

721.2315/159a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Peru (Poindexter)5

Washington, February 21, 1925—8 p.m.

2. The Department has recently held conversations with the Peruvian Ambassador, the Colombian Minister and the Brazilian Chargé regarding the settlement of the situation created by the Brazilian protest against the ratification of the Colombian-Peruvian boundary treaty. The Colombian and Peruvian Governments appear to be in virtual accord but the Peruvian Ambassador has not yet received instructions from his Government. Department very anxious to conclude matter before March 4, and suggests a meeting in Secretary of State’s office between the Secretary of State, the Peruvian Ambassador, the Colombian Minister and the Brazilian Chargé, a Procès Verbal of same to be drawn up in the following terms:

[Here follows the text of procès-verbal quoted in the Department’s telegram No. 15, February 21, 8 p.m., to the Ambassador in Brazil, supra.]

Please communicate this text immediately to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and express the hope that he will find it possible to send instructions to the Peruvian Ambassador in Washington without delay to take part in the meeting in the manner set forth above and to sign the Procès Verbal.

Hughes
  1. The same, except for substitution of the words “Colombian Minister” for “Peruvian Ambassador” in the last paragraph, to the Minister in Colombia (file No. 721.2315/161d).↩