721.23/2303: Telegram
The Minister in Colombia (Whitehouse) to the Secretary of State
[Received 8:20 p.m.]
30. The Secretary of the Foreign Office sent for me this afternoon to tell me, first, that Colombia had accepted the alternative formula of Mello Franco for article 7 (see my telegram 2820). Second, that Perú had now suggested fundamental modifications of the supplementary agreements to the Mello formula; namely, those mentioned in the second paragraph of my telegram 19, April 11, noon [11 a.m.?], which are an integral part of the protocol under the Mello formula. He then handed me the text of the agreements as proposed by Colombia. These are quite inoffensive and text will be forwarded by air mail. As I did not see how their subject matter could lend itself to serious differences I asked what the Peruvian proposals were. He did not know but said he would ask at the Palace if they had received them.
On account of these sudden Peruvian proposals no discussion of the minor difficulties mentioned in my telegram 28 has yet begun.