722.2315/1231: Telegram
The Ambassador in Brazil (Caffery) to the Secretary of State
[Received 8:20 p.m.]
245. My 243, October 14, 9 p.m. Minister for Foreign Affairs has just handed me the following note marked “very urgent” (translation): [Page 239]
“The Minister for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Ambassador of the United States and has the honor to submit for His Excellency’s consideration the enclosed text of a draft reply to the recent telegram of the Minister of Ecuador regarding mediation in the boundary question between Ecuador and Peru.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs would be most grateful to receive from the American Ambassador as urgently as possible an expression of his opinion in regard to the text referred to as well as any suggestions on the subject which he may care to make with a view to arriving as promptly as possible at a uniform reply for transmission to the President of Ecuador by the Presidents whose mediation has been solicited.”
Enclosure follows:
“Appreciating the honor of Your Excellency’s appeal which has merited special attention and consideration I wish to assure you in the name of my country that we are profoundly desirous that a prompt and pacific solution may be found for the question now pending between your Government and that of Peru, as was to be expected for all similar cases which may arise on our continent. I can assure Your Excellency that my Government ardently desiring to serve the cause of peace and harmony among the American peoples is today as always ready to contribute its best efforts toward a friendly solution of this question and would be happy to participate in the mediation which in the present situation your country and the Republic of Peru wish jointly to solicit from the continental countries.”