724.3415/271b, 302: Telegram
The Chairman of the International Conference of American States on Conciliation and Arbitration (Kellogg) to the Bolivian Minister for Foreign Affairs (Elio)68
I have the honor to transmit to your Excellency the following report of the Special Commission of the Conference together with a resolution, both adopted unanimously by the International Conference of American States on Conciliation and Arbitration, except Paraguay, which abstained from voting and Bolivia, which was not present.
The report says:
The Committee charged with reporting to the Conference on the conciliatory action that may be appropriate with respect to the incident between the Republics of Bolivia and Paraguay, after being informed of the replies received from both nations to the cable message sent by the Chairman of this Conference on Conciliation and Arbitration, considers that the Conference in plenary session is called upon to decide upon the course which should be followed.
Nevertheless, the Committee deems it to be its duty to suggest to the Conference a concrete proposal to the end that the principles of conciliation and arbitration in support of which it was convened may find their most sincere and their friendliest application in this case.
In accordance with American tradition, in general, as shown by the antecedents, expressions of hope and Pan American resolutions, and also in conformity with the measures adopted during the last years for the maintenance of world peace, the Conference may take a prudent and effective course with the assurance of general approval for its endeavor.
The friendly proceedings of an Assembly of Sister Republics must find favorable echo and most sympathetic reception, especially in the spirit of the nations directly interested in the incident. Those proceedings show the degree of solidarity and affection by which the other countries of the hemisphere feel bound to them.
Animated by these sentiments, and without assuming any political attitude beyond the appropriate purposes of this Conference, the Committee proposes to this Assembly the Conference proffer its good offices to the interested parties for the purpose of promoting suitable conciliatory measures with the aim of preserving the principle of conciliation and arbitration as a solid foundation of international life.
The Resolution says
The Conference, therefore, resolves:
To offer to the interested parties its good offices with the object of promoting adequate conciliatory measures to maintain the principle of conciliation and arbitration as the solid foundation of international life.
- The same, on the same date, to the Paraguayan Minister for Foreign Affairs.↩