Office of the Historian

800.014 Antarctic/11–1449: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Embassy in Chile

confidential
Washington, November 14, 1949—6 p. m.

376. Chil and UK Embs confirm that exchange of notes renewing tripartite understanding of Jan 18 will take place Nov 18 (Deptel 297, Sep 8.1). Text of notes identical with previous text except for omission word “routine”. Dept will issue press release similar release Jan 18 upon Emb Santiago confirmation exchange notes has taken place2 Chil desires our press release be issued same day.

To Santiago as 376; London as 4101; BAires as 685.

Webb
  1. Not printed, but see footnote 2 to telegram 3729, September 16, from London, p. 809.↩
  2. For the text of the statement issued to the press on November 19, see Department of State Bulletin, November 28, 1949, p. 833. Regarding the Department’s statement to the press of January 18, see the editorial note, p. 793 ↩