825.6374/1123: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Chile (Culbertson)
20. Your 50, March 24, 4 p.m., last paragraph. Department has made no public statement and is not intending to make any. The Department does not intend to make public the text of the aide-mémoire in its 19, March 23, 7 p.m.
At the press conference on March 24 the Secretary said, in reply to questions but not for attribution regarding instructions to you, that: “It is simply a matter about working out some kind of adjustment in connection with what seemed to be a misunderstanding or difference of opinion about a fundamental phase of the relations between the two Governments as it grew out of some transaction, so I just suggested that all efforts be made to iron out that matter in accordance with what I thought was the sounder basis of international relationship.”