Letters from JENARO SANJINES, Chief Clerk of Foreign Affairs

Letter

JENARO SANJINES, Chief Clerk of Foreign Affairs to Note .—The statement made by me was that, in the present complicated condition of affairs, Chili would not yield her claim to the cession of Tarapacà, unless compelled to do so by a manifestation on the part of the United States of a purpose to force her to that determination; that neither the people nor the Government of the United States had ever contemplated the possibility of assuming a warlike attitude. W. BLAINE, April 1, 1882

From JENARO SANJINES, Chief Clerk of Foreign Affairs

To Note .—The statement made by me was that, in the present complicated condition of affairs, Chili would not yield her claim to the cession of Tarapacà, unless compelled to do so by a manifestation on the part of the United States of a purpose to force her to that determination; that neither the people nor the Government of the United States had ever contemplated the possibility of assuming a warlike attitude. W. BLAINE

April 1, 1882

[Inclosure 3 in No. 4.—Translation of inclosure 2.] (Private copy.) Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia. [April 1, 1882]. In the city of La Paz, on the 1st of April,…