723.2515/3356: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Peru (Moore)
50. Your 84, April 27, noon, 85, April 27, 2 p.m., and 86, April 27, 8 p.m., answer my 48, April 26, 7 p.m., and 49, April 27, 1 p.m., as to paragraph 8 or (h) if the deletion of provision mentioned is accepted by Chile. As soon as possible I should like to see the full text of the proposal which President Leguia will desire the President of the United States to make in the exercise of informal and unofficial good offices, paragraph 1 of which is quoted in your 85, April 27, 2 p.m. I want to determine as soon as possible whether there are any other provisions which it would be either inopportune or unwise for the President of the United States to suggest.
One of the proposals transmitted from Chile is that Chile and Peru would name a commission of engineers to delimit the frontier, and that in case of a disagreement the President of the United States would appoint “a third as referee”. If this stipulation is in the agreement, is there any definition in the agreement itself, or in a subsidiary agreement, defining the powers and authority of this third engineer?