Office of the Historian

721.23/1710a: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Peru (Dearing)74

Washington, May 11, 1933—5 p.m.

59. Please address following note to the Minister for Foreign Affairs:

“I am instructed by my Government to state that it has been advised of the text of the document adopted on May 10 by the League of [Page 528] Nations Advisory Committee on the controversy between Colombia and Peru, which would constitute the settlement provided for in the Council’s recommendations of March 18. The Government of the United States is happy to inform the Government of Peru that in its judgment the recommendations of the Advisory Committee offer a peaceful and honorable means of terminating this unfortunate controversy and it earnestly hopes that the Government of Peru will see its way clear to accepting them”.75

For your own information an office translation of the recommendations reads as follows:

[Here follows text of section numbered 1, contained in telegram No. 178, May 10, 9 p.m., from the Minister in Switzerland, printed supra.]

At the same time a confidential letter from the President of the Council would be forwarded to Colombia with respect to the use of Colombian troops. Peru would be confidentially apprised thereof. This document reads in translation as follows:

[Here follows text of section numbered 2 (except first line) contained in telegram No. 178, May 10, 9 p.m., from the Minister in Switzerland, printed supra.]

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  1. Sent also to the Minister in Colombia as telegram No. 45.↩
  2. Above paragraph transmitted to the Minister in Switzerland as telegram No. 100, May 11, 5 p.m.↩