825.01/71: Telegram
The Ambassador in Chile (Culbertson) to the Secretary of State
[Received 1:15 p.m.]
137. Merely to convey to you the reaction in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to our delay in granting recognition I transmit the following observations made by the Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs to Mr. Sparks in an informal conversation: The Foreign Office used in its note the expression “international obligations” in the broadest sense and therefore believes that it has given all the assurances required by international practice, particularly those laid down by the American Government; that the American Government should accept these assurances as made in good faith and that, if they are not lived up to afterwards, the American Government can then resort to diplomatic representations.