724.3415/3001: Telegram
The Minister in Paraguay (Wheeler) to the Secretary of State
[Received 2:35 p.m.]
42. Your telegram No. 11 of April 6, 1 p.m. The President, after some consultation, authorizes me to assure you that while there will be opposition to overcome this Government will accede to the request in its entirety. Its reply to the formal proposal, however, will not be made without some delay from the conviction that apparent eagerness would be construed in La Paz as a sign of weakness and would stiffen Bolivian resistance to agreement. Neither my Argentine nor my Chilean colleague has as yet received any instruction from his Government in the matter.