Office of the Historian

721.23/1270: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Colombian Minister for Foreign Affairs (Urdaneta Arbeláez)34

Washington, February 27, 1933.

I have just been advised of the proposal made to the Governments of Colombia and Peru on the 25th instant by the League of Nations.35 That organization has stated that it would greatly appreciate any help which this Government might give to the proposal of the League.

It gives me great pleasure to advise Your Excellency that I find the proposal suggested by the League of Nations a most straightforward, helpful one, which, if accepted by both parties, should make possible a peaceful solution of the present controversy, honorable to both Governments. In giving my fullest support to this proposal I have the honor to express the hope that your Government will see its way clear to accepting it.

Henry L. Stimson
  1. The same, mutatis mutandis, on the same date to the Peruvian Minister for Foreign Affairs; text quoted in telegram No. 79, February 27, 5 p.m., to the Minister in Switzerland, at Geneva.↩
  2. See telegram No. 130, February 25, 9 p.m., from the Minister in Switzerland, supra.↩