721.23/1287: Telegram
The Colombian Minister for Foreign Affairs (Urdaneta Arbeláez) to the Secretary of State
[Received 10:21 p.m.]
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of Your Excellency’s kind cablegram36 in regard to the proposal made by the League of Nations to the Governments of Peru and Colombia on the 25th instant. Your Excellency finds that such proposal constitutes a measure of very helpful aid and that if accepted by the two parties it would afford the possibility of a peaceful solution of the present controversy in a manner honorable to both Governments. Your Excellency’s valuable support is given to the proposal of the League and you express the hope that it will be accepted by the Government of Colombia. From the moment that the conflict was begun by the attack on the Colombian port of Leticia, my Government has shown the greatest desire to reach a peaceful and friendly solution which might, without bloodshed, restore the juridical order which was subverted. Inspired today by the same intentions, it has sent instructions to the Colombian delegate at Geneva directing him to state that my Government accepts without any modification the proposal of the League, and to point out, merely, that if Peru accepts it, it should be put into effect immediately, in order that its effectiveness in favor of peace may not be lost. The Government of Colombia considers Your Excellency’s support of the proposal of the League as a new proof of the interest with which the Government of the United States of America favors peace on the American continent, and it increases the sympathy of my Government for such proposal.
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