611.2531/224: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Chile (Frost)
54. Tour 80, November 22, 7 p.m. Please request the Foreign Office to present you with an informal written statement, which might cover the questions contained in the Department’s no. 52 of November 19, 6 p.m., as to the interpretation which the Chilean Government gives to proposed item (b) of the modus vivendi, and telegraph the statement to the Department.
As the Franco-Chilean treaty will apparently not become effective for 15 days after the exchange of ratifications, our present modus vivendi should not automatically terminate before the end of that period.