852.00/8677a: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Secretary of State
39. We received last night this report through the head of the Havas Bureau here:
“Havas, London, reports that the British Government has been advised by the American Government in Washington that the American Delegation in Lima is going to propose to the Conference that the Conference offer mediation in the Spanish conflict.”
As you may remember, I asked the British Ambassador just before he left for his own personal reaction to such a possibility and he replied that he personally believed his Government would be enthusiastically favorable to such a step. No further conversation on the subject has taken place here or in London.
I have informed the correspondents who have inquired with regard to this report that I knew nothing whatever about it and that inquiries should be addressed to the American Delegation in Lima which was the only competent authority to give any information with regard to this rumor.