722.2315/1570b: Circular telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to Diplomatic Representatives in the American Republics Except Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru
In company with your Argentine and Brazilian colleagues please seek a
joint interview with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the country
to which you are accredited and convey to him the message that
follows hereafter. In the countries where there are no
representatives of Argentina and Brazil you should state that the
views you are expressing hereafter have been agreed upon by the
Governments of Argentina, Brazil and the United States:
The terms referred to in the previous paragraph are quoted hereafter [Page 233] from the instructions sent by the three governments to their representatives in Lima and Quito.
“(Here quote last two paragraphs in telegram to Lima.30)”
[Serious fighting in the border regions broke out on July 23, 1941. An agreement was reached for the cessation of fighting on July 31 but sporadic hostilities occurred later. Activities of the three mediating Governments, Argentina, Brazil, and the United States, centered on efforts to prevent further conflict and to secure the withdrawal of armed forces from territory into which they had advanced. Observers were sent by Argentina, Brazil, and the United States to the area of conflict. Correspondence on these aspects of the dispute not pertinent to the boundary settlement itself, is not here printed.]