723.2515/2135: Telegram
The Ambassador in Chile (Collier) to the Secretary of State
[Received 3:30 p.m.]
71. Mercurio this morning publishes editorial ridiculing plan of independence and neutralization, declaring it impracticable and absurd. …
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[Paraphrase.] I think that it would be most undesirable, in fact almost disastrous, for us to present this plan as our own proposition except in alternative form and then only if press could be informed without violation of confidence on our part and if they would then immediately communicate to all South American papers that Edwards was author or advocate of this plan. [End paraphrase.] …
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