825.85/189b: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Chile (Bowers)
664. With reference to the proposed purchase of the three Chilean vessels, the War Shipping Administration now desires to proceed immediately to conclude this deal assuming the terms of the various documents recently forwarded to you are satisfactory to the CSAV and the Chilean Government.
Accordingly, you are authorized to propose to the Chilean Government the conclusion of an agreement, a draft of which was forwarded to you.78 The agreement should follow the text of that draft and, as to its form, it may properly be signed by you and the Chilean Foreign Minister, or put in the form of a memorandum of agreement and made the subject of an exchange of notes.79
After the above agreement is concluded it is desired that the agreement for the sale of the vessels be signed in both English and Spanish subject to the changes in texts listed below.
There are also listed in Section 2 hereof78 certain changes in the Spanish text of the bill of sale.
Please inform the Department promptly of the action taken or of any changes in either agreement which either the CSAV or the Chilean Government believes necessary. As one of the vessels is due in New Orleans very soon it is hoped that the agreements can be concluded before its arrival.