724.3415/2957: Telegram
The Minister in Paraguay (Wheeler) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11:35 a.m.]
36. Yesterday Uruguay inquired confidentially whether Paraguay would receive from that Government an independent proposal for an armistice the main features of which proposal were indicated. Ayala replied that Paraguay’s engagement with the ABCP would forbid its consideration at the present time. He tells me that the contemplated proposal was of such a character that he has no idea it could be made acceptable. Yesterday by instruction of their Governments the Chilean and Brazilian Ministers here appealed to him not to declare a state of war. He answered that in view of the continued passage of armament for Bolivia, Paraguay’s only recourse was to invoke the law of neutrality.