724.3415/3072: Telegram
The Minister in Bolivia (Feely) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 5—5:50 p.m.]
41. In further conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs with respect to the suggestion contained in my telegram No. 34, April 20, 5 p.m., I inquired whether Bolivia would consent to allow the arbitral zone to be determined by a compromise between a zone to be proposed by Paraguay and that already indicated by Bolivia in her memorandum of February 28,90 the two zones referred to in my said telegram to be excluded. The compromise would be arrived at by friendly exploration on the part of the mediators in Asunción and La Paz.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs replied that if Paraguay would propose an arbitral zone, the solution suggested would, in his opinion, be feasible and acceptable to Bolivia.
The Uruguayan Government has consented to act as intermediary in the creation a commission to investigate the treatment of prisoners.