723.2515/2094: Telegram
The Ambassador in Chile (Collier) to the Secretary of State
[Received 7:18 p.m.]
58. I have just received a memorandum, of which following is translation:45
“The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile has the honor of expressing his conformity with the three points of the plan proposed by the Secretary of State for the development of the proceeding by good offices to which reference is made in the memorandum of His Excellency Mr. Collier, dated April 2; and he takes pleasure in adding that the Chilean Ambassador in Washington is duly instructed to participate in said proceedings. Santiago, April 3, 1926.”
I am reliably informed that Chile will be reluctant to accept any solution of the problem except partition of the territory, and that the Minister for Foreign Affairs believes that the plan proposed by Edwards for a neutralized state will result in future discord between the three nations which would adjoin it and might possibly lead to war.
- Text of memorandum not paraphrased.↩