722.2315/1068: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Peru (Dreyfus)

21. Your telegram No. 30 [33], 3 p.m. Please request an audience with President Benavides and state to him that President Roosevelt deeply appreciates his cordial message conveyed in your telegram; that the President’s sole interest in the boundary negotiations is that it may be possible for Peru and Ecuador to find in the near future an amicable settlement of this long-standing question in order that friendly relations between all the countries of the Americas may be permitted to develop to the fullest extent; and that the President desires that President Benavides be assured that any plan which may be satisfactory both to Peru and Ecuador for hastening the termination of the pending boundary question will be viewed with most sincere gratification in the United States.

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