File No. 711.1215/458a.
The Acting Secretary of State to the American Ambassador.
Washington, March 27, 1913.
144. Referring to recent telegraphic correspondence relating to Chamizal case, the Department understands that the general assurances contained in your No. 118 of March 18, 2 p.m., when construed in the light of Mr. De la Barra’s assurances reported in your No. 105 of March 13, that “the Chamizal case was agreed upon according to the American proposal”, means that Mexico reaffirms as the bases of the proposed negotiations the fundamental ideas set forth in the Mexican Embassy’s memorandum of January 27, with the substantive modifications contained in the Department’s telegram of March 3, that is: inclusion of the Córdova Tract and the limitation of the amount of the proposed awards.
You will address a note to the Foreign Office stating that this is the Department’s understanding and quoting textually the substantive modifications of the Mexican Embassy’s memorandum proposed in the telegram of March 3 from the Department to you.