724.3415/3100: Telegram
The Minister in Bolivia (Feely) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11:25 a.m.]
46. Referring to Department’s telegram May 12, noon, the Minister for Foreign Affairs yesterday informed me that the Bolivian [reply?] to the last Argentine note would be brief but cordial in tone.
[Page 325]Subsequently he sent for the Argentine Minister and authorized him to convey to his Government certain official declarations expressing Bolivia’s earnest desire that Argentina lend its support to an arbitral solution in cooperation with the other eight countries, and stating that Bolivia is desirous of ending in a friendly [way?] the debate originated by the Argentine note of April 22d and that the Bolivian reply will be cordial in tone.
I am hopeful that this will terminate the incident, but I have suggested the advisability of an early Bolivian reply both to Argentina and Chile in order to forestall further incidents.