725.34/18: Telegram
The Ambassador in Chile (Sevier) to the Secretary of State
[Received 8:20 p.m.]
66. Embassy’s telegram 65, August 6, 6 p.m. Foreign Office informs me that presentation of its note to Paraguay has been delayed due to the telegraphic garbles but that it will be delivered tonight and that Chilean Minister at Asunción will depart next Sunday. Foreign Office does not consider this will constitute technical rupture of diplomatic relations and holds that the latter will arise only when and if Paraguay withdraws its Minister from Santiago and places its interests in the hands of a third power.
Neither the Chilean press nor public is fully aware of the situation as yet and the reaction is consequently mild.