861.77 Chinese Eastern/665: Telegram
The Chargé in Chile (Lay) to the Secretary of State
[Received 2 p.m.]
172. Referring to Department’s telegram of December 1, 4 p.m., last paragraph. Minister of Foreign Affairs handed me this morning the following statement:
[Translation]
“The Government of Chile, informed of the invitation of the Government of the United States of America to the Governments of China and Russia to consider the stipulations of article 2 of the Treaty for the Outlawry of War in the settlement of their difficulties in Northern Manchuria, expresses to the United States the greatest interest in this pacific action and, as an adherent to the said treaty, hopes that any conflict of that kind may be satisfactorily settled in the spirit of that pact.”
This has also been given to the press and to the Chinese Chargé d’Affaires in Santiago.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs has decided not to send to China a statement similar to the American one to China as he intended, as reported in my telegram number 170 of December 6, 3 p.m.