Office of the Historian

740.0011 European War 1939/27258: Telegram

The Ambassador in Chile (Bowers) to the Secretary of State

Santiago, January 19, 1943—11 p.m.
[Received January 20—12:55 a.m.]

115. Following Foreign Minister Fernández’s exposition of Chilean foreign policy before the Senate this body at 9 p.m. today voted 30 for, 10 against, with 2 abstentions, its approval of “policy adopted by the President of the Republic who, in exercise of his constitutional prerogatives, has announced his decision to break relations of Chile with the Axis Governments”. No official statement has yet been issued by the Government in this connection.

Bowers