026 Foreign Relations/1353
The Ambassador in Peru ( Steinhardt ) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 12.]
Sir: I have the honor to refer to the Department’s instruction No. 81 of February 23, 1938,18 describing the policy of the Department of publishing Foreign Relations volumes fifteen years after the date of the documents printed in the volumes in question and requesting that the views of the Peruvian Government be ascertained with respect to the possibility of issuing Foreign Relations volumes which [Page 983] will include documents of a date closer to current events than the fifteen-year period mentioned.
This matter was brought to the attention of the Peruvian Foreign Office in note No. 108 of March 5, 1938, of which a copy is enclosed.19 The Foreign Office has now replied in note No. 6–3/40 of April 4, 1937, that it perceives no objection to the immediate publication of all kinds of documents of a diplomatic character with the sole exception of those which, by their nature, have a strictly confidential character. A copy of the text with translation of the Foreign Office’s note referred to above is also transmitted herewith.19
Respectfully yours,