710.Consultation (3)A/404
The Peruvian Embassy to the Department of State63
Memorandum
The Government of Peru considers that the designation of a liaison officer, duly authorized by the Advisory Committee for the Political Defense of the Continent to attend its deliberations, serves the purposes of interchange of information between the Committee and non-member countries such as Peru.
Because of this view, the Peruvian Government deemed it unnecessary and declined its permission for a special Delegation of the Committee to travel to Peru on an official mission. The Peruvian Government was of the opinion that no special end would be served by a such a visit, but that, on the contrary, there might be occasion that in certain quarters such a trip would be interpreted as an act of control which invaded or impaired the powers reserved to national sovereignty.
[Page 29]The Government of Peru believes that the work of coordinating emergency and defense measures may be achieved efficiently through established channels, without the need of recourse to extraordinary measures which may arouse resistance if adjudged to be interventions in internal affairs; and considers that its denial of permission for the visit of the special Delegation, in the light of these observations, does not in any way reflect upon its willingness to contribute, and to continue to contribute, to such defense, for which it was one of the first nations to adopt the necessary measures.
- Transmitted to the Secretary of State by the Peruvian Ambassador in his letter of August 17, 1943, not printed.↩