721.23/1211: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Peruvian Minister for Foreign Affairs (Manzanilla)
Your Excellency’s telegram of 20th instant has been received and carefully considered. I find nothing therein to change the views which I frankly and fully expressed to you in my cable of January 25th. On that date and on January 30th also I expressed the hope that in order to arrive at a peaceful settlement of this matter your Government would find it possible to accept without modification the very equitable proposal suggested by the Brazilian Government. I have regretted that your Government has apparently not been able to accept this proposal and I am sorry to note from your telegram under acknowledgment that your Government apparently has not felt it possible to change its position with respect thereto. I have now been informed of the proposal made in writing to the Peruvian representative before the League of Nations at Geneva on February 23d33 and I sincerely hope that the Peruvian Government will be able to accept this proposal for a peaceful settlement of your Government’s difficulty with Colombia.