723.2515/2022: Telegram
The Ambassador in Chile (Collier) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 17—10:25 a.m.]
36. Minister of Foreign Affairs today handed me a memorandum, first stating that the delay had been due to absence of the President from the Capital. The following is a translation thereof:
“The Minister for Foreign Affairs of Chile has taken due note of the memorandum of the Ambassador of the United States, dated the 12th day of the present month,23 and is informed by it that the spontaneous offer of good offices by that Government to endeavor to make an arrangement of the difficulties between Chile and Peru, has been formulated with the understanding that in case of being accepted by both parties [sic] would empower the Government of the United States to exercise them with ail the amplitude compatible with the original purpose of accomplishing a lasting solution of the pending differences.
The Government of Chile appreciates the friendly interest which, for the arrangement of the difficulties with Peru, is manifested by the Government of the United States in its statement that notwithstanding the negative received from one of the parties, the offer of its good offices must be considered as subsisting. My Government adds that it has not altered its disposition to accept said good offices in the form indicated in the memorandum of Your Excellency (the Ambassador of the United States) which the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Chile now has the honor to answer. Dated March 16th, 1926.”