724.3415/2927: Telegram
The Ambassador in Chile (Culbertson) to the Secretary of State
[Received 6:10 p.m.]
41. My telegram No. 38, March 3, noon.63 This afternoon the Chilean and Argentine Foreign Ministers agreed that tomorrow they will transmit to the neutrals, with some expression of pessimism, the Paraguayan and Bolivian replies. Bolivia’s fifth point which limits the scope of the arbitration is considered the most serious obstacle. In view of the fact that both countries have accepted arbitration in principle [Page 282] the support of the neutrals will be requested in an effort to persuade Bolivia and Paraguay to declare immediately an armistice and to retire their forces to the lines referred to in the original proposal.
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