723.2515/2060: Telegram
The Ambassador in Chile (Collier) to the Secretary of State
[Received 7:53 p.m.]
45. I handed your memorandum to the Minister for Foreign Affairs this morning. Mathieu expressed great astonishment and disappointment and fear that Chilean Government would not accept, inasmuch as it regards Peru’s move as dictated solely by desire to obtain delay and avoid plebiscite. …
[Page 353]… I hope Chile will accept this renewed offer of good offices; but I believe her Government may insist either upon going ahead with registration or upon delay of only ten or fifteen days, allowing a few days for presentation of the views of the litigating nations through their Ambassadors and attorneys now in Washington, and expecting the President to make his recommendations two or three days later and the Congresses of Chile and Peru to take final and definite decision within very few days after that, with the plebiscitary proceedings to be hurried forward from that date.
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