724.3415/107

The Minister in Paraguay ( Kreeck ) to the Secretary of State

No. 203

Sir: I have the honor to refer to my cablegram to the Department, No. 15, dated December 7, 1926, 6 p.m.,59 confirming and summarizing it below:

The Paraguayan Minister of Foreign Affairs … advises me that Paraguay is preparing a note in which the Government of the United States is requested to interest itself in the Bolivian-Paraguayan limits controversy upon the termination of the Pacific question. …

The above information was received in the course of a call upon the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who had indicated that the President would give me his views upon the memorandum of the Secretary of State, in regard to the settlement of the Tacna-Arica controversy.60

It is the President’s view that the Secretary of State has shown himself a true friend of all America, and that the United States has only the peace of this continent in view, to the end that the family of the republican nations of the Western Hemisphere may live with cordial relations in contentment.

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It is believed that the plan of settlement suggested will be accepted by all of the interested parties, and because of its extreme interest, fairness, justice and good-will, this nation will prepare a note asking the United States to interest itself in the Bolivian-Paraguayan boundary question. The Minister expressed himself as of the opinion that now is the time for Paraguay to come forward with her problem to the United States, that the American people may know the situation and, through proof by truth and justice, bring about a termination of this question. He also stated that, if the Bolivian-Paraguayan boundary were also determined, all matters of controversy seriously affecting the peace of the American continents would have passed away, leaving the attention of these peoples free for the development, intellectually and economically, of their nations.

It is felt that there could be no stronger or more forceful endorsement of the efforts of the Secretary of State toward universal American peace than to have another nation tender him the solution of its like controversy.

It is understood that when the note has been completed it will be delivered to me for transmission to the Department.61

I have [etc.]

Geo. L. Kreeck
  1. Not printed.
  2. See telegram No. 84, Nov. 30, 1926, to the Ambassador in Peru, p. 504.
  3. No note of the nature contemplated was delivered.