825.6374/1115: Telegram
The Ambassador in Chile (Culbertson) to the Secretary of State
[Received 10:35 a.m.]
47. Referring to my telegram No. 46, March 16, 6 p.m. The Minister for Foreign Affairs has not yet completed memorandum. Press this morning reflects a determination of the Government to treat its action as a fait accompli and to insist upon its position. Indications are that memorandum will contribute nothing to solution and that it will be too long to telegraph. I believe therefore that action need not be delayed awaiting the memorandum which will probably be primarily a defense of the Government’s action and at most a compromise which takes for its starting point the assumption that the Government was justified in diverting the service of the 60 peso charge from the trustees to the Chilean Treasury.