Office of the Historian

721.23/1155: Telegram

The Minister in Colombia (Caffery) to the Secretary of State

Bogotá, February 15, 1933—2 p.m.
[Received 5:20 p.m.]

39. As a consequence of attack by Peruvian planes on Colombian vessels in Brazilian and Colombian waters Colombian Minister at Lima has been instructed to ask for passports and Peruvian Minister here was handed his this morning at 11.25 Olaya does not intend to declare war.

Caffery
  1. See section entitled “Assumption by the American Embassy in Peru of Colombian Interests in Peru; Sacking of the Colombian Legation”, pp. 549 ff.↩