825.6363/120: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Chile (Culbertson)
24. Your 45, May 18, 4 p.m.66 You are authorized, whenever you consider it advisable, to communicate in writing to the Chilean Government that in the event that Government takes steps to make the monopoly effective, thereby expropriating or otherwise forcing out of business American interests established in Chile, this Government will support a claim for adequate and effective compensation; by effective compensation is meant compensation which would be convertible without difficulty into United States money within a reasonably short period after the act of expropriation to those suffering loss.
- Not printed; see despatch No. 1163, May 18, from the Ambassador in Chile, supra.↩