710.Consultation (3)/130: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Chile (Bowers)
646. From the Under Secretary. Your 837, December 29, 1 p.m. Please tell the Foreign Minister that I deeply appreciate his message. [Page 9] Tell him that I expect to reach Rio de Janeiro in the late afternoon of January 12 and that I trust I may have the privilege of conferring with him immediately after my arrival. I hope that his plans contemplate his arrival in Rio de Janeiro in sufficient time in advance of the opening of the Conference to permit me to have this opportunity.
I received today your personal letter of December 23.19 I shall bear fully in mind the very helpful suggestions you have made.
I am contemplating asking the Chilean Government to adopt as of its own initiative a project of resolution which we are now completing for presentation at the Rio Conference. This proposed resolution provides for the convoying of merchant vessels of the American Republics and for the setting up of inter-American defense machinery. It is in accordance with one of the suggestions advanced by the Chilean Government for inclusion in the agenda for the Conference. I shall cable you the text of it as soon as it is completed and I will likewise give the Chilean Ambassador here a copy thereof. I suggest however that you make no mention of this until receipt of my further cable on this subject.20 [Welles.]