824.00/89: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Bolivia ( Maginnis )

52. Department appreciates information contained your numbers 95, July 31, 1 p.m., and 96, August 1, 6 p.m., and also the zeal and activity which they reflect, but deems it important to caution you against any statements, which may tend to commit this Government or impair its freedom to act on its own estimate and judgment of situation. Therefore Department desires you to observe instructions contained in Department’s July 21 [20], 5 p.m., and to confine your representations to junta to questions enumerated in that telegram. …

Colby