710.Consultation 3/422: Telegram
The Ambassador in Chile (Bowers) to the Secretary of State
[Received 1:31 p.m.]
121. The following telegram has been sent to Rio.
For Welles. Your January 19, 1 p.m. I am reliably informed that the night before last Rossetti [telegraphed?] from Rio for permission to modify Chile’s stand against breaking relations, but that Acting Foreign Minister Pedregal told him that he must not only maintain this position but expressed alleged feeling of the Chilean Government that Rossetti was weakening whereas his stand should be more resolute even than that of Argentina. Pedregal is said to have told Rossetti that this instruction was at the behest of the Vice President74 and represented the views of the majority of the Chilean Senate.
Repeated to the Department.
- Gerónimo Mendez.↩