723.2515/3273: Telegram
The Ambassador in Chile (Culbertson) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 4—8:45 p.m.]
27. Your 18, March 1, 1 p.m. The Foreign Minister is absent but President Ibanez happens to be in Santiago. I am personally convinced that he and his advisers believe that a basis of final settlement has been outlined and that from now on it is only a question of working out the details. The expense connected with the new port presents a difficulty, and a request that the monument on the Morro be erected under the supervision of the Pan American Union would be regarded by Chile as a reflection on her good faith.
President Ibanez is sending you a telegram.3 He expresses a sentiment universal in this city. You may feel confident that in this work for peace, as in others, your patient and constructive statesmanship has been decisive.
- Telegram dated March 3, not printed; in it the President expressed his gratitude for Mr. Kellogg’s part in restoring the ties of friendship between Chile and Peru (723.2515/3279).↩