725.34/29: Telegram
The Ambassador in Chile (Sevier) to the Secretary of State
[Received 1:42 p.m.]
72. Embassy’s telegram 71, August 11, 2 a.m.5 The statement of the Minister appears on the front page of all the morning papers in the following form:
“We inquired of the Minister of Foreign Affairs regarding the attitude which the Government will adopt toward the approaching discussion of the Chamber of Deputies of the project which would prohibit the rendering by Chileans of military service to belligerent countries, a project which is first on the schedule for discussion on Monday. Sehor Cruchaga replied: ‘The Government in its desire to bring about an improvement in the legal system regarding neutrality, going farther than that established by the Hague Conventions in regard to this subject,6 presented for the consideration of the legislature the project referred to. It supported this project in the Senate and it will support it in the Chamber of Deputies when it is discussed. By proceeding in this way the Government demonstrates its continued approval of this project notwithstanding an international incident which everything leads to suppose will be settled in a satisfactory manner’.”
- Not printed.↩
- See Foreign Relations, 1899, pp. 521 ff., and ibid., 1907, pt. 2, pp. 1181 ff.↩