Ambassador Dudley to the Secretary of State.
Petropolis, December 22, 1910.
Your December 19. Brazilian minister for foreign affairs agrees that mediators had best advise Peru and Ecuador to refer their whole question to The Hague court of arbitration, but predicts Ecuador will at once propose that Colombia be admitted as a party to the proceeding, in which case he suggests that the mediators, dissenting from the proposal, recommend in lieu thereof the subsequent submission to The Hague by Peru and Colombia of their boundary contention, all difference in this respect between Colombia and Ecuador being now settled by treaty.