823.01/13: Telegram

The Ambassador in Peru (Dearing) to the Secretary of State

203. The Papal Nuncio has just informed me that the Holy See is recognizing the junta today. The Nuncio stated that this action was intended to be a gesture of good feeling toward the Peruvian people. Confidentially the Nuncio stated that it was impossible for him satisfactorily to solve his multifarious problems with the local authorities without recognition.

Dearing