810.20 Defense/302a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Chile (Bowers)
174. From the Under Secretary. On September 5 President Aguirre Cerda addressed a personal and confidential letter to the President. This letter was not received by the President until October 10. The President’s reply will be sent to President Aguirre Cerda as soon as the President returns to Washington next week. If you are afforded the opportunity of seeing President Aguirre Cerda in the near future, it would be desirable for you to say that owing to the delay in transmission the President has only recently received the letter sent him by President Aguirre Cerda and that his reply will be expedited.
Under existing conditions it might be well to avoid any misapprehension on the part of President Aguirre Cerda and any feeling on his part that the President has not given the fullest measure of consideration to the suggestions contained in his communication. [Welles.]