724.3415/2840: Telegram
The Minister in Switzerland (Wilson) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 31—9:55 a.m.]
87. Your 60, January 30, 5 p.m. Discussed matter with Drummond this morning. He had heard of meeting of Foreign Ministers at Mendoza and was interested to learn that they are taking up this matter. He informed me very confidentially that a reply from the Paraguayan Government has come in in which they took the position that the neighboring states (limitrophe) were working on the problem now and therefore the Paraguayan Government hesitated to complicate matters by the sending of a League commission at this moment.
Reply from the Bolivian Government has not been received and until this is done Drummond earnestly hopes that no mention will be made of the Paraguayan reply.
Relative to the point made in last sentence of final paragraph of your telegram Drummond replied that he recognized the difficulty of long distance negotiation and that it was with the hope of avoiding this difficulty that the Council Committee suggested a commission to the two capitals.
Drummond does not know what action the Council Committee will take but believes that under the circumstances it will be advisable to delay action, probably on the grounds of the replies of the two Governments concerned.