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The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Chile ( Culbertson )

No. 1463

Sir: The Department acknowledges the receipt of your despatch No. 1365 dated January 25, 1933,51 reporting your impressions of the political situation in Chile upon your recent return to Santiago, especially your conversations with President Alessandri and his Finance Minister regarding the abrupt Cosach and Electric Bond and Share decrees.

The Department commends you for the despatch under reference and approves of the position taken by you during your conversations with the President and the Finance Minister above referred to. It desires you to continue to keep it promptly informed of important developments in conversations which the representatives of both companies are to have with officials of the Chilean Government with reference to the problems created by the decrees above-mentioned.

Very truly yours,

For the Secretary of State:
Francis White
  1. Not printed; but see telegram No. 19, January 31, 7 p.m., from the Ambassador in Chile, p. 159.