724.3415/331: Telegram
The Minister in Bolivia (Kaufman) to the Secretary of State
La
Paz, January 2, 1929—8
p.m.
[Received 9:30 p.m.]
[Received 9:30 p.m.]
1. Department’s telegram of January 2, 11 a.m. Foreign Minister informs me that Bolivian Minister’s telegram requesting authority to sign protocol was not received until eleven o’clock this morning and that at six o’clock he cabled the Minister at Washington to sign with the following modifications:
- 1.
- To omit from the preamble an unauthorized statement included therein by the Minister on his own initiative.
- 2.
- To add at the end of clause 2 that the neutral commissioners shall continue their labors except in case of illness until the end of the period of investigation.
- 3.
- To insist under instructions from the President upon fixing the period of investigation at six months without extensions.
- 4.
- To amend clause 8 as follows: “The Commission shall be empowered to advise the parties concerning measures designed to avoid a renewal of hostilities.”
Kaufman