711.00 Statement July 16, 1937/98
The Chilean Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs (Garces Gana) to the American Ambassador in Chile (Philip)49
Dear Mr. Ambassador: I have had the pleasure of receiving the courteous communication of the 23rd instant, in which Your Excellency is good enough to transmit to me an important statement recently made to the press by H. E. the Secretary of State of the United States.
In reply, I have to inform Your Excellency that I have read said statement with the greatest interest and that my Government sees in it a new manifestation of the high sentiments and purposes which the President of the United States and the Secretary of State made evident in the recent inter-American conference for the consolidation of peace held not long ago as a result of the happy initiative of H. E. Mr. Roosevelt.
On that recent occasion my Government had the satisfaction of concurring with Your Excellency’s Government and those of the other sister republics of America in signing new peace instruments which set forth “that all wars or threats of war directly or indirectly affect all civilized peoples and endanger the great principles of liberty and justice which constitute the American ideal and standard of international policy”; that “the direct or indirect intervention of any of the contracting parties, for any motive, in the domestic or foreign affairs of any of the parties is not admissible” and that “anything which assures and facilitates the fulfillment of the treaties in force is an effective guaranty of international peace”.
The authorized statements to which Your Excellency refers are inspired by the same principles and therefore will surely favor the firm ideals of peace and international justice to which we all happily adhere.
I avail myself [etc.]
- Copy transmitted to the Department by the Ambassador in his despatch No. 673, July 30; received August 6.↩