810.74/527: Telegram
The Ambassador in Chile (Bowers) to the Secretary of State
Santiago, October 9, 1942—7
p.m.
[Received 9:40 p.m.]
[Received 9:40 p.m.]
1671. Reference Embassy’s 1659, October 8, 8 p.m. Yesterday afternoon the Post and Telegraph asked the manager of Transradio to suspend enforcement of the directors decision not to accept code messages from or to non-American territory. This afternoon the director of Post and Telegraph gave tacit approval to Transradio directors decision and at 3:45 refused to accept a code message for Berlin from the German Embassy. The German Ambassador protested to the Foreign Office but, we are told, without effect.
Bowers