323.2322/3: Telegram

The Chargé in Peru (Mayer) to the Secretary of State

167. My 151, August 25, 4 p.m., paragraph 3. At diplomatic body meeting this morning the question was discussed of disposition of those who had been given asylum in the various diplomatic missions (save for the British I believe all have refugees). Most if not all of South American representatives will follow the provisions of the Treaty of Montevideo5 and the Pan American Conference of Havana 1928.6 Substantially this means:

  • First, to inform the authorities in control here of the names of those to whom asylum has been given;
  • Second, to request these authorities to give assurance that the refugees will be placed safely aboard ships leaving the country, and;
  • Third, that the refugees will agree not to disembark anywhere in Peru or in a neighboring country, especially since Mr. and Mrs. Larranaga and baby and Mrs. Martinez and two small children are essentially political refugees and came to me at a moment when their lives were undoubtedly in imminent danger.

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I most heartily recommend that the Department authorize me to adopt the above procedure. This will also consort with Pan American solidarity.

Japanese and Netherlands representatives are making similar recommendations to their Governments.

Mayer
  1. Signed January 23, 1889; see República Argentina, Ministerio de Relaciones y Culto, Actas y Tratados del Congreso Sud-Americano de Derecho Internacional Privado, Montevideo 1888–1889 (Buenos Aires, 1928), pp. 877, 882.
  2. See Foreign Relations, 1928, vol. i, pp. 527 ff.