817.00/8461: Telegram
The Assistant Secretary of State (Welles) to the Chilean Minister for Foreign Affairs (Cruchaga)
I am most appreciative of Your Excellency’s welcome message because of the very friendly and reassuring statement which it contains. Because of the mistaken implications which had been drawn in some quarters from your Government’s memorandum, with widespread publicity attendant upon the communication in similar vein made public yesterday by the Peruvian Foreign Office, this Government felt it indispensable to make both its policy and all of the facts in the matter public in full detail. You may be sure that this Government will welcome the opportunity to cooperate at all times with the Government of Chile in upholding the policy of non-intervention which this Government champions in its dealings with every nation of the world. My kindest regards.