724.3415/2676: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Bolivia (Feely)

61. Your 142, December 19, 6 p.m. Paraguayan delegate has advised Neutral Commission of his temporary withdrawal. Commission is endeavoring to have Paraguay change instructions to permit him to remain.

The League is supporting the neutral proposal in the most wholehearted way.

The Argentine Ambassador in a note to the Commission on December [Page 135] 1992 stated that the Argentine Government having studied the new proposal made to the Governments of Bolivia and Paraguay, “rejoices in the comprehensive form in which it is conceived, attesting the noble inspiration which it expresses and that the Argentine Government will give it its most decided support in the hope that it will solve the unfortunate conflict between the two sister countries”. He adds that his Government on the 17th addressed the two Governments adhering to the neutral proposal stating “that in the ample and generous terms of the Neutrals could be found a satisfactory formula and pointing out the necessity to realize the supreme effort which all the countries of America await in order to arrive finally at the end of this lamentable conflict”.

Stimson
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