724.3415/2665: Telegram
The Commission of Neutrals to the Bolivian Minister for Foreign Affairs (Tamayo)
The Commission of Neutrals has received Your Excellency’s telegram90 in reply to the proposal of the 15th of the Commission of Neutrals, in which Your Excellency states that in view of the absolute rejection on the part of the Paraguayan Government, your Government does not consider it useful to touch on any point of the proposal.
Regarding this point, the Commission of Neutrals observes that Paraguay has not absolutely refused its proposal. She has simply indicated that the proposal does not satisfy her completely, as, [Page 132] apparently, is also the case of Bolivia. As Your Excellency’s Government states that it accepts in principle the main points of the proposal, the Commission would desire to know explicitly the observations to which it refers.
Both parties can and should make concessions of detail with the object of achieving peace and an arbitral solution. The fact that neither party finds the proposal of the Neutrals entirely satisfactory is a plain indication of the justice, equity and impartiality of the proposal, attributes which all the countries of America, as well as the League of Nations, have unanimously recognized in it, by supporting the Commission’s proposal without reservations, as they have done.
That proposal unquestionably offers an honorable basis for settlement by the parties. Any observation that the Government of Bolivia or the Government of Paraguay has presented or may present will be examined with entire impartiality by the Commission of Neutrals.
President
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