723.2515/3352: Telegram
The Ambassador in Peru (Moore) to the Secretary of State
[Received 5:50 p.m.]
82. Your 47, April 25. Owing to the dispute over the boundary line, President Leguia and the Chilean Ambassador did not agree on the scope of the settlement to be made by the President.
Saw President Leguia today and he showed me the draft of the proposal he was going to make tomorrow to Ambassador Figueroa. It contains about a thousand words and the President told me that if this draft was acceptable to Chile he would then give me a copy of the paragraph of it which refers to President Hoover. The President of Peru does not want to give it to you until it has been agreed to, because the Chileans may want to make some slight changes.
The only thing that seems in dispute now is the boundary line. President Leguia says that all along they have agreed to a boundary 10 kilometers north of the Arica–La Paz railway and that he would not submit to any change. The Chilean proposition practically makes it 18 kilometers.