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Memorandum by the Secretary of State
Dr. Varela8 came in to say that he was Chairman of the Commission under the Gondra Treaty9 and was much concerned about the situation between Peru and Colombia and the fact that Colombia [Page 386] refused to have any conference at all under that Treaty. He said he was aware of the efforts which Mr. White had been making, with which he fully sympathized, and that he thought Mr. White had shown great intelligence and poise, but as time was pressing and there was likely to be a fight, he wondered whether I would not personally take the matter up with Mr. White and see what could be done. I told him I had been keeping in touch pretty carefully with Mr. White but that I was growing very anxious over the imminence of hostilities and would take the matter up again.
- J. Varela, Uruguayan Minister in the United States.↩
- Treaty to Avoid or Prevent Conflicts Between the American States, signed at Santiago, May 3, 1923, Foreign Relations, 1923, vol. i, p. 308. This treaty was supplemented by the General Convention of Inter-American Conciliation, signed at Washington, January 5, 1929, ibid., 1929, vol. i, p. 653.↩