834.156/112a: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Paraguay ( Mooney )
2. See previous correspondence regarding Asunción Port Concession.1
A set of financially responsible men, including Charles M. Barnett, George D. Graves, C. E. Bockus, and others, who have formed new Asunción Port Corporation, represent to Department that they desire to take up at once work originally contemplated by concession, and that any intervening rights of International Products Company and Swift Company have been or can be entirely protected by agreement among the interested parties. They further represent they have information President of Paraguay favors resumption of work by present interested persons. Department desires you ascertain fully from Paraguayan Government if it favors a renewal of work along lines originally contemplated, also that you inform Department concerning your views as to advisability from standpoint of American commercial interests of informal action on part of Department in assisting in execution of proposed works.