Office of the Historian

721.23/1012: Telegram

The Minister in Haiti (Armour) to the Secretary of State

Port-au-Prince, February 5, 1933—11 a.m.
[Received 2:50 p.m.]

7. Department’s telegram No. 2, February 4, 2 p.m.91 The Minister for Foreign Affairs92 informs me that his telegram of January 28 last made no direct reference to the Kellogg Pact although in supporting the solution proposed by Brazil the inference might well have been drawn from the language he used that his action was based on the Kellogg Pact.

Yesterday the Minister received a reply from the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Peru in which the latter stated that his Government accepted the Brazilian proposal and that negotiations were proceeding on that basis.

Monsieur Blanchet assures me that he will now send a further telegram to the Peruvian Foreign Minister expressing the Haitian Government’s satisfaction at the decision to accept a peaceful solution which shows that the principles set forth in the Kellogg Pact are a living and moving force in governing the relations of the signatories with one another.

Armour
  1. It read: “Your 5, February 3, 2 p.m. Was Haitian Government’s telegram to Peruvian Minister of Foreign Affairs based on Kellogg Pact as requested by Colombia? This is important.” (721.23/991)↩
  2. Albert Blanchet↩