823.30/218
The Peruvian Ambassador ( Freyre ) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 17.]
Your Excellency: With reference to my note of December [September] 3, 1937, transmitting a Memorandum wherein my Government specified the number and qualifications of the United States Naval Officers and Petty Officers, whose service it wished to engage for the [Page 891] purpose mentioned, I have been instructed formally to request, as I hereby have the honour to do, that Your Excellency’s Government kindly acquiesce in my Government’s proposal, and, if no objections exist to the terms tentatively submitted in the aforesaid Memorandum, as I understand is the case, that the individual agreements be drafted and forwarded to the Embassy for transmission to and approval of the proper authorities at Lima.
In the Memorandum referred to, my Government stated that Four (4) Officers and Two (2) Petty Officers would be required. I am now informed that the number of Officers remains unaltered, but that Five (5) Petty Officers, instead of Two (2) as formerly suggested should be engaged, the terms of their engagement to be the same as specified in the Memorandum.
Please accept [etc.]