823.30/108: Telegram
The Chargé in Peru (Mayer) to the Secretary of State
[Received 6:43 p.m.]
189. My 186, September 4, noon. Yesterday at my request the Minister for Foreign Affairs promised to ask Minister of Gobierno at once for written statement of charges against Sutton as well as permission for Embassy representative to communicate with him, et cetera.
If notification regarding charges not forthcoming shortly and Sutton is not permitted to see Embassy representative and/or attorney, I believe the time will have arrived when, recalling our patient attitude, we should protest vigorously against what will then appear to be persecution rather than prosecution.
I submit that the same should apply to Grow’s case if something is not done in his regard within the next few days.