723.2515/2034: Telegram
The Chargé in Peru (Wadsworth) to the Secretary of State
[Received 4:18 p.m.]
27. Department’s telegram number 25, March 18, 4 p.m. Following your instructions I presented in person your memorandum in the form of a note to the Minister of Foreign Affairs at noon today, but on hearing that the President was too ill to see me for several days I gave the note for the President to the Minister for Foreign Affairs who informed me that he would see that the President received it today.
From past conversations with the President I feel quite convinced that he will not alter his views regarding the holding of a plebiscite. There is in Peru a tremendous enthusiasm for a plebiscite and I believe the President would find himself at odds with the people were he to adopt any other view than that with which the Department is already acquainted.