721.23/599: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Colombia (Caffery)
55. Your 87, December 22, 5 p.m.32 In view of past misunderstandings between Guzman and Maúrtua and a telegram from Lima indicating Maúrtua may not have transmitted proposal as he stated to White on the 20th, White yesterday showed him copy of memorandum of his conversation of 20th and asked him to indicate any way in which it did not fully represent his views. Maúrtua indicated [Page 312] that it did represent what he had said but he would want to make some verbal changes and White asked him to prepare and bring in in writing as quickly as possible exactly what he will stand by. It was promised for this afternoon and is now promised for tomorrow morning. Lozano has been advised of this and that it seems best to await Maúrtua’s own written statement before giving him anything in writing.
- Not printed.↩