721.23/1402: Telegram
The Permian Minister for Foreign Affairs (Manzanilla) to the Secretary of State
[Received 8:40 p.m.]
In reply to the cablegram dated the 27th of February last39 from Your Excellency’s honorable predecessor,40 I have the honor to state [Page 497] that my Government has given its acceptance to the proposal made by the League of Nations for the peaceful solution of the controversy between Peru and Colombia; and we have requested, in order to prevent the difficulties which might be caused by contact of Colombian forces with Peruvian inhabitants who repel them, that the police of the territory of Leticia be of any other nationality.
If Your Excellency should deign to support this prudent observation it would increase the gratitude of my Government for the friendly interest which the American Government has been displaying in this matter from the beginning. I offer to Your Excellency, together with my congratulations for having been deservedly called to the direction of the Department of State, the assurances of my highest consideration.