026 Foreign Relations/1349
The Chargé in Chile ( Frost ) to the Secretary of State
Sir: I have the honor to refer to the Department’s instruction No. 326 of February 23, 1938,10 requesting me to ascertain the views of the [Page 981] Chilean Government with respect to the possibility of issuing Foreign Relations volumes which will include documents of a date closer to current events than the fifteen year period now in effect.
The Embassy discussed this matter with the Chief of the Diplomatic Department of the Foreign Office;12 and the latter, after consultation with the Foreign Minister,13 prepared in answer to the Embassy’s inquiry an aide-mémoire of which a copy and translation are enclosed.14 The Chilean Government is anxious to meet the wishes of the Department and interposes no objection to the suggested reduction of the fifteen year period. As a matter of principle, however, it would wish to be consulted first as to the documents referring to Chile which would be published in the Foreign Relations volumes.
Respectfully yours,