Office of the Historian

724.3415/1974: Telegram

The Commission of Neutrals to the Bolivian Minister for Foreign Affairs (Gutiérrez)

[Translation]
Washington, August 8, 1932.

Your Excellency’s cablegram of the 4th of this month in regard to the suggested suspension of hostilities says verbatim: “what we stated was that our future attitude would depend on that which Paraguay might observe.” On the 6th50 we sent to Your Excellency declaration of the Minister of Foreign Relations of Paraguay assenting to the suspension of hostilities.

We therefore consider that the two countries are agreed on the suspension of hostilities and we venture to request that they be actually suspended at daybreak on the 10th day of this month and we shall appreciate an immediate reply to inform Paraguay of it, to whom we are giving notice of the present despatch.

We venture to insist on immediate suspension of hostilities because we are informing [sic]* Government Paraguay today that Bolivian forces attacked Paraguayan fortín Carlos Antonio López, Pitiantuta, the Paraguayan garrison withdrawing.

Francis White

For the Secretary of State of the United States
Fabio Lozano T.

Minister of Colombia
José Richling

Chargé d’Affaires of Uruguay
José T. Barón

Chargé d’Affaires of Cuba
P. Herrera de Huerta

Chargé d’Affaires of Mexico
  1. Telegram not printed.↩
  2. Spanish “Avisamos”. This is doubtless a typographical error for “avisanos” which would make the passage read in translation, “Government Paraguay informs us today …”—Translator’s note. [Footnote in the file translation.]↩