721.23/2403: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Colombia (Washington)
71. Your 104, December 13, 7 p.m., and 106 December 14, 1 p.m. Please call upon Foreign Minister and, with relation to this question, say that we wish to express our interest in the maintenance of friendly relations among the American states and our confident hope that the Rio de Janeiro Protocol, already ratified by Peru, may receive ratification in Colombia before the date fixed in the Protocol for exchange of ratifications.
Consult your Brazilian colleague and if he has received similar instructions you may make the foregoing oral statement to the Foreign Minister simultaneously with action taken by the Brazilian Minister, but not in any sense as a joint statement.
Your 100, December 10, noon, last paragraph. We have on various occasions expressed this thought to the Colombian Chargé d’Affaires here and shall endeavor to do so again on Monday, December 17.