724.3415/3295: Telegram
The Chargé in Paraguay (Horn) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 28—3:06 a.m.]
86. I am reliably informed that the Cabinet will meet tonight to discuss a new proposal received at noon yesterday directly from the Brazilian Foreign Office acting for the ABCP powers.27 It provides:
- 1st, that an instrument be signed by the belligerents in which they agree to submit the entire Chaco dispute to legal arbitration,
- 2nd, they agree to cease military operations from the time of signing the foregoing,
- 3rd, the belligerents accept the moral guarantee of the ABCP powers that the Pact will be carried out and will select a South American capital as the center of negotiations.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs expects to telegraph Paraguay’s reply tomorrow. There is a feeling among my colleagues that the proposal will be accepted as presented. A recent conversation with Benitez leads me to the same view.
The War Department announces today that fighting is continuing along the front from Nanawa to Rodriquez de Francia. Yesterday all enemy assaults attempted upon Nanawa, Pirizil and Gondra were immediately repulsed. At Campo Aceval Paraguayan troops won some ground and captured war materials. No estimate of casualties was given out.
- See League of Nations, Official Journal, November 1933, p. 1582.↩