The Secretary of State to Minister Fox.1
Washington, May 15, 1910.
The Argentine Republic and Brazil have accepted this Government’s proposal of tripartite mediation. You will therefore immediately place yourself in touch with your Argentine and Brazilian colleagues, who have received instructions to join you in delivering at the earliest possible moment the joint note, of which you have the text, and which is to be delivered identically and simultaneously to the Governments of Ecuador and Peru.
Cable me the moment the note has been presented. I shall thereupon make it public here, subject to agreement with the two Governments, joining in the mediation for similar action at Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. You will realize that publicity is very important to the moral effect. I am sending a similar instruction to the legation at Lima.
- Same to the legation at Lima.↩