Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, 1929, Volume I

724.3415/682a: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Paraguay (Kreeck)⁴⁸

Washington, August 30, 1929—3 p.m.

33. Department’s telegram No. 31, August 24, 11 a.m.

1. The Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry and Conciliation, Bolivia and Paraguay, is delivering to the Delegations of the interested countries today a formal note on behalf of the neutral Commissioners transmitting a draft treaty of arbitration and a supplementary protocol, all of which represents the proposal of the neutral Commissioners to the interested Governments of a plan for a fundamental settlement of the controversy between the two countries.

2. On August 26, last, the Chairman of the Commission handed to the Delegations of the interested countries a confidential memorandum⁴⁹ embodying the basis for conciliation of the incidents of last December under the Protocol of January 3, this year.

3. These bases of conciliation with certain supplementary explanations which have been made to the interested Delegations since the delivery of the memorandum of August 26 are expected, if agreed to by the interested parties, to make it unnecessary for the Commission to establish responsibilities under Article 6 of the Protocol.

4. The proposal of the neutral Commissioners for the conclusion of an arbitration treaty and a supplementary protocol is given below in full.⁵⁰

5. You will be guided by the Department’s telegram above referred to in discussing with the Government to which you are accredited both the bases of conciliation and the proposal for a fundamental settlement.

Johnson

48. The same on the same date to the Chargé in Bolivia as telegram No. 46, mentioning Department’s telegram No. 43, August 24, 11 a.m.
49. Not found in Department files; but see telegram No. 37, September 9, 9 p.m. to the Minister in Paraguay, p. 858.
50. See note from the chairman of the Commission to the Delegations of Bolivia and Paraguay, August 31, 1929, infra.