724.3415/2777: Telegram
The Ambassador in Brazil (Morgan) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 12—1:45 p.m.]
6. Department’s telegram number 6, January 10, 1 p.m.33 Brazilian Minister for Foreign Affairs has replied to the Cruchaga proposals through the Chilean Chargé d’Affaires, Rio de Janeiro, that Brazil is ready to accept and further any proposition which the Neutral Commission and neighboring neutrals agree upon for settling the Chaco dispute but since he awaits a proposition which Argentina recently stated she proposed to make, as reported in my telegram 4, January 9, 4 p.m., he can not at present reply more specifically to Chile.
Orally, he stated to the Chilean Chargé d’Affaires that he thought in relation to an agreement for an armistice that it would be preferable if Bolivian and Paraguayan forces should withdraw from the disputed territory instead of maintaining their actual positions as suggested by Cruchaga.