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The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Chile ( Philip )
Sir: Reference is made to your despatch No. 527 of March 13, last, concerning the negotiation of the new Modus Vivendi between the United States and Chile, and the relationship of these negotiations to a possible commercial agreement between Chile and Great Britain.
You are authorized to endeavor to ascertain from your British colleague [Page 389] in Santiago, if you perceive no objection, whether the British Government in such an agreement would expect to include an article providing for equality of exchange treatment. You may inform him, in this connection, of the desiderata of this Government in the conversations which you have been conducting with the Foreign Office in regard to a Modus Vivendi between the United States and Chile.
Very truly yours,