Office of the Historian

724.3415/3098: Telegram

The Bolivian Minister for Foreign Affairs (Canelas) to the Bolivian Diplomatic Missions in Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, the United States, and Uruguay91

[Translation]
La Paz, May 5, 1933.

183. Please advise [visit] Chancellor* and state that Government Bolivia desires continuance good offices ABCP consortium [and] Commission Neutrals Washington and considers that in present state negotiations determination of territorial claims on the part of Paraguay would be decisive step towards arbitral solution invoked by countries in conflict. Bolivia having pointed out on her part arbitrable territory it would be proper to ask Paraguay to do the same in order that immediate application arbitration might be based on those concrete bases.

As long as Paraguay continues avoiding determination of her arbitrable claims in the Chaco, Government Bolivia reiterates its favorable disposition towards considering proposals which the ABCP and Commission Neutrals Washington may desire to express directly to the two countries regarding arbitrable zone.

Canelas
  1. Copy left with the Chairman of the Commission of Neutrals by the Bolivian Minister on May 6. The Chairman told the Minister that as a result of this he would call a meeting of the Commission for Monday, May 8.↩
  2. The Secretary of State. [Translator’s note.]↩