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The Minister in Bolivia (Feely) to the Secretary of State
[Received 7:08 p.m.]
64. The Minister of Foreign Affairs informed me today that Argentina, Chile and Peru are insisting upon a cessation of hostilities as a condition precedent to further negotiations and that he had instructed the Bolivian Minister at Rio de Janeiro to inform the Brazilian Government that if those countries persist in that attitude Bolivia cannot accept that condition and would prefer to have the negotiations returned to Geneva. He again expressed regret that the United States was not to be a participant in future negotiations for peace.