723.2515/3273: Telegram

The Ambassador in Chile (Culbertson) to the Secretary of State

[Paraphrase]

27. Your 18, March 1, 1 p.m. The Foreign Minister is absent but President Ibanez happens to be in Santiago. I am personally convinced that he and his advisers believe that a basis of final settlement has been outlined and that from now on it is only a question of working out the details. The expense connected with the new port presents a difficulty, and a request that the monument on the Morro be erected under the supervision of the Pan American Union would be regarded by Chile as a reflection on her good faith.

President Ibanez is sending you a telegram.3 He expresses a sentiment universal in this city. You may feel confident that in this work for peace, as in others, your patient and constructive statesmanship has been decisive.

Culbertson
  1. Telegram dated March 3, not printed; in it the President expressed his gratitude for Mr. Kellogg’s part in restoring the ties of friendship between Chile and Peru (723.2515/3279).