724.3415/3218
Memorandum by the Chairman of the Commission of Neutrals (White)
The Neutrals met on the twenty-seventh and all were in favor of disbanding the Neutral Commission with the exception of the Uruguayan Minister, Doctor Varela. Doctor Varela asked me to try to draw up a formula which would be acceptable to all and I drew up a draft of a press release. After this was read, certain modifications were made, and then it was typed out and copies given to each member of the Commission who studied it, made suggestions, and finally the corrected text was accepted unanimously. The Uruguayan Minister said that he was really not in favor of the statement because it supported a thesis which is opposed to his; he realized there was no possibility of reconciling two points of view so diametrically opposed as his and the other members of the Commission and [Page 345] he would therefore make the vote unanimous. In this connection, it may be said that certain proposals made by the Mexican Chargé were rejected categorically by Señor Varela who said that if they were adopted by the Commission then it would be a majority report and not a unanimous one. He was perfectly willing to make the text that was finally agreed on unanimous. A copy is attached hereto.18
- See telegram No. 118, supra.↩