Office of the Historian

825.00 Revolutions/149: Telegram

The Ambassador in Chile (Culbertson) to the Secretary of State

Santiago, July 9, 1932—10 a.m.
[Received 10:45 a.m.]

127. Referring to page 4 of my despatch 1181 of June 22,22 and to my telegram No. 121, July 6, 3 p.m., the only changes in the Cabinet named yesterday are: Pedro Lagos as Minister of War, and Francisco Nieto as Minister of Marine replace Arturo Puga as Minister of National Defense;23 Eliseo Peña Villalón replaces Virgilio Morales as Minister of Lands and Colonization; the Minister of Justice and of Health have not been named to replace the former ones.

Culbertson
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. When Juan Carlos Dávila became Provisional President of the de facto Government July 8, the Ministry of National Defense was dissolved into its original component services. Aviation remained under the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Marine was reestablished. (825.00 Revolutions/128)↩