724.3415/1434a: Circular telegram
The Secretary of State to Certain Diplomatic Representatives in Latin America98
The representatives in Washington of the neutral countries acting in the Bolivia-Paraguay dispute are addressing cables today to the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of all the other American countries, inviting them to authorize their diplomatic representatives in Washington to sign on October 20th a joint telegram directed to Bolivia and Paraguay in the following terms:
“The representatives of the American republics meeting in Washington, the seat of the neutral commission, having been duly authorized by their respective Governments, have the honor to express to the Governments of Bolivia and Paraguay their most earnest desire that, with the urgency which the case demands, they sign a pact of non-aggression as they have already contemplated doing, and that they continue their efforts to arrive at a definitive solution of the Chaco question which is so much occupying the nations of the American continent.”
The telegram is signed by the Secretary of State, the Ambassador of Cuba, the Minister of Uruguay, the Minister of Colombia and the Chargé d’Affaires of Mexico.
Please express at once to the Minister of Foreign Affairs the hope that he will authorize his diplomatic representative in Washington to sign this telegram on the date suggested and also urge that the text of the proposed cable be kept strictly confidential until the telegrams have actually been sent to Bolivia and Paraguay.
- The diplomatic representatives in all Latin American republics except Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Paraguay, and Uruguay.↩