710.Consultation(2)/452: Telegram
The Ambassador in Chile (Bowers) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received 10 p.m.]
186. This afternoon Foreign Minister handed us the following reply to your telegram No. 126 of July 24, 7 p.m.
We are officially told that this is not the result of consultation with Argentina and only by telegraph with the Chilean delegation at [Page 248] Habana. However we were told that this will be sent to the Chilean Ambassador in Buenos Aires for presentation to Foreign Office there. The Under-Secretary here thought the setting up of complete machinery for mandate premature. The Foreign Office has notified its delegate at Habana.
“After careful consideration my Government has reached the conclusion that the subject in question would be better formulated and would suit the situation more exactly if the American Republics should adopt at Habana a declaration of a general character which would reaffirm the principle of nonrecognition of territory conquered by force (Saavedra Lamas Treaty),75 of the renouncing of war as an instrument of national policy (Kellogg-Briand Treaty)76 and would proclaim the determination of the American States not to recognize and to oppose any possible changes of sovereignty over European possessions in America in cases where such changes would operate tor the benefit of non-American powers. It could likewise be added that the maintenance of the actual status quo is necessary for the security of the continent if a change in sovereignty or a modification in the jurisdiction, possession, or actual control exercised in these regions in favor of a non-American country, should come about the American Governments would immediately consult with each other and determine in common accord the most appropriate means with which to meet the new situation.[”]
- Signed at Rio de Janeiro, October 10, 1933, Foreign Relations, 1933, vol. iv, p. 234.↩
- Signed at Paris, August 27, 1928, ibid., 1928, vol. i, p. 153.↩