Office of the Historian

721.23/2297: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Colombia (Whitehouse)

Washington, May 17, 1934—7 p.m.

18. We are advised by Mello Franco that the Colombian and Peruvian delegations at Rio de Janeiro are in agreement on his compromise formula, including agreement in principle on his proposals relating to the two points which had remained for settlement; namely, a redrafting of article 1 of the formula and an addition to paragraph 3 [Page 357] of article 6; and that complete agreement therefore now rests upon a favorable decision in Bogotá and Lima.

Please see the Acting Foreign Minister, advise him orally of the foregoing, and say that your Government on the basis of the information which it possesses regarding Mello Franco’s compromise formula, regards it as equitable and as offering an honorable and peaceful method of reaching a permanent solution of this serious controversy. This Government very much hopes that it may be accepted by both Colombia and Peru. You may add that we are expressing the same views at Lima.21

Hull
  1. Telegram No. 40, May 17, 7 p.m., not printed.↩