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Memorandum by the Chief of the Division of Latin American Affairs (Morgan) of a Conversation With the Bolivian Minister (Diez de Medina)
The Minister called and handed me a telegram from his Government, a copy of which is attached,18 stating that Bolivia accepts Formosa as the place for the exchange of prisoners, and also forwarding the list of the names of Paraguayan prisoners asked for by [Page 842] the Paraguayan Legation. Señor Diez de Medina also asked that the Paraguayan Government transmit as soon as possible a list of the names of Bolivian prisoners in Paraguay.
I communicated the information in this telegram immediately to Dr. Ramírez and handed him a list of the names of the prisoners, and also requested on behalf of the Bolivian Government, the names of the prisoners in Paraguay, which he said he would endeavor to procure from Asunción. It was decided that the Bolivian Minister should communicate with his Government in order to arrange an approximate date for the exchange to take place, since Formosa is much farther from Villa Montes, where the Paraguayan prisoners are, than it is from Asunción.
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