823.51/1521: Telegram

The Chargé in Peru (Patterson) to the Secretary of State

40. The Finance Minister29 has informed Bondholders Protective Council responsive to their telegram of December 17 referred to in the Department’s instruction 2973, December 23, 1943,30 that he would [Page 1569] be ready to begin conversations in January. He has now completed the budget work and having received no notice from the Council plans to be in the country for a rest between January 11 and 20th unless Council intends to have a representative here during that time. If the visit of the representative is scheduled for January 20 or thereafter a reply to this message will not be necessary.

The Minister indicated that no plan for the expected conversation had been made but that the conversations themselves would be to develop basic proposals.

Patterson