721.23/2406: Telegram
The Ambassador in Peru (Dearing) to the Secretary of State
Lima, December 14, 1934—3
p.m.
[Received 6:05 p.m.]
[Received 6:05 p.m.]
127. My 126, December 13, 11 p.m. British Minister has just shown me messages from British Minister at Bogotá to Foreign Office, London, repeated to Lima and Rio de Janeiro, stating prospects of ratification of the Rio de Janeiro Protocol by Colombian Congress steadily decrease and that while the Colombian people approve the settlement, the Congress is apt to defeat it.
- 2.
- British Minister has just talked with Foreign Minister who requested him to seek the good offices of the British Government with the Colombian Government and has cabled London stressing the seriousness of the situation, the continuing unrest in Peru, the potentialities for trouble in Loreto and the Peruvian belief that López can if he wishes change his tactics, force the issue and oblige the Congress to ratify.
- 3.
- The British Minister states the Foreign Minister desires separate representations near the Colombian Government by the various friendly and interested powers and advises London against joint action with other powers or the League at the moment as calculated to unduly magnify the present danger.
- 4.
- The British Minister is conferring with the Brazilian Ambassador since his Bogotá colleague informed him the Brazilian Ambassador in Bogotá is communicating with Rio. He hints that the Nunciature, the Chilean Embassy, and the French and Italian Legations may also be interesting themselves in this matter shortly.
- 5.
- The Minister finally stresses in his telegram to London that Perú has a very great advantage under the Protocol and that the Colombian objections are based on articles 2 and 7.
Dearing