724.3415/2227: Telegram
The Ambassador in Chile (Culbertson) to the Secretary of State
[Received 10:40 a.m.]
197. Some disagreement apparently arose among the four neighboring countries after the meeting referred to in my telegram 196, September 3, noon, and there has been delay in despatching the communication to the neutrals. I have had no part in the conference over the week-end. In the conference Friday night, however, I noted that the Chilean Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Argentine and Peruvian Ambassadors were inclined to insist that the proposed conference be held in South America since, so they argued, it would permit Bolivia and Paraguay to be represented by their Ministers for Foreign Affairs. They were perhaps inspired also by motives more personal. I understand that Brazil has objected to the sending of the note unless the neutrals approved it and agreed to sign along with the neighboring countries and unless the conference be held in Washington if the neutrals so desired.