724.3415/1406c: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Bolivia (Feely)87
57. Please present immediately to the Minister of Foreign Affairs the following note:
“The representatives in Washington of the neutral Governments have viewed with concern the recent encounter of Bolivian and Paraguayan troops in the Chaco and in order to contribute in a positive way to the maintenance of peace in that region have now the honor to suggest to the Bolivian and Paraguayan Governments that they give categoric instructions to the Commanders of all their forces in the Chaco that all their military forces be strictly confined within the limits of their respective forts in order to avoid any further incidents or clashes and thus make easier the task of the representatives of the two Governments when they meet in Washington on November 11, to draw up a pact of non-aggression.”
- The same, mutatis mutandis, on the same date to the Minister in Paraguay as telegram No. 40.↩