723.2515/2438: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul at Arica (Von Tresckow)
[Paraphrase]
Washington, June 13,
1926—8 p.m.
For Lassiter. Your June 12, 12 p.m.
- 1.
- If Edwards demands that you withdraw your termination resolution
and, when you refuse, formally records Chile’s withdrawal from
further participation in plebiscitary proceedings, I think three
things should be donitem:
- (1)
- You should certify to the Arbitrator the fact of Chile’s withdrawal;
- (2)
- You should postpone action on all pending motions, including termination resolution;
- (3)
- You should suspend all plebiscitary proceedings until further order of Plebiscitary Commission.
- 2.
- If Chile does not withdraw, and the termination resolution is voted on and adopted, decision of Commission will presumably stand as final unless appeal is taken. In absence of appeal, the Commission will have only to formulate and approve its final report to Arbitrator, transmitting with it Commission’s official records. It occurs to me that you and the secretary general might have delegated to you by the Commission the duty of preparing and submitting the report. If an appeal be taken from adoption of the termination resolution, however, the record on appeal should be certified in accordance with practice in past appeals, and in that event Commission certainly could not adjourn sine die, but should take adjournment subject to call of its president.
Kellogg