File No. 723.2515/155.
The American Ambassador to Brazil to the Secretary of State.
Petropolis, April 25, 1910.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the Department’s instruction of April 2, 1910,1 quoting a memorandum of a conversation between the Assistant Secretary of State and Mr. Villegas, Argentine Chargé d’Affaires at Washington, on the subject of the Tacna-Arica controversy.
Very recently the French Chargé d’Affaires here has been instructed to lend moral support to Baron do Rio Branco in his efforts to promote a settlement between Chile and Peru, and the British Minister has received a similar instruction, relating as well to the Peru-Ecuador dispute, but with directions to conform his action to [Page 1198] the course pursued by this Embassy. Of this he has advised Baron do Rio Branco, who received the information with great satisfaction. No action of any consequence has yet followed.
I have [etc.]
- See the Department’s No. 110 of April 2 to the Chargé d’Affaires at Lima, identical with the instruction here referred to.↩