Office of the Historian

722.2315/1391: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Peru (Norweb)9

Washington, January 30, 1941—3 p.m.

18. Your 11, January 14, 1 p.m. The following telegram was received on January 24 from the American Chargé d’Affaires at Rio de Janeiro:

“Aranha today requested me to inform you that after giving adequate consideration to your message he applauds the initiative put forward by the Peruvian Minister for Foreign Affairs and will support the idea. He said that he would undertake to recommend this plan to both Governments and would at once speak to the Peruvian Ambassador and the Ecuadoran Minister here in that sense.”

Hull
  1. On the same date a telegram was sent to the Minister in Ecuador as No. 16, giving the substance of this telegram and of telegram No. 11, January 14, 1 p.m., from the Ambassador in Peru, supra.↩