861.77 Chinese Eastern/621: Telegram
The Chargé in Chile (Lay) to the Secretary of State
[Received 9:12 p.m.]
170. Department’s circular telegram of December 5, 4 p.m.80 Minister of Foreign Affairs told me this morning that his Government is in entire accord and sympathy with the action and suggestions made by United States Government to Russia and China and that his Government desires to take identical action, but he feels that inasmuch as Chile has repeatedly refused to recognize the Soviet Government and is not a great power like the United States, Chile has decided not to address Russia in the matter even through an intermediary. The Minister for Foreign Affairs told me howbeit that he intends to ask the Chargé d’Affaires of China in Santiago to transmit a communication to the Chinese Government substantially the same as yours to both China and Russia in Department’s circular telegram of December 1, 4 p.m. He is sending this communication to China through its Chargé here, as Chile’s [representative?] accredited to Japan and China is now in Tokyo ill.
No comments in Chilean press on this subject has [have] appeared as yet, probably awaiting announcement of the action of the Chilean Government.
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