724.3415/3313: Telegram
The Chargé in Paraguay (Horn) to the Secretary of State
Asunción, September 8, 1933—6
p.m.
[Received 10 p.m.]
[Received 10 p.m.]
90. My telegrams 86, August 27, 7 p.m., and 88, August 31, 1 p.m.29 The Minister for Foreign Affairs has lately telegraphed the following note to Rio de Janeiro:
“The Government of Paraguay, accepting the mediatory efforts of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru as a testimony of the interest of those friendly nations in the peace and the destiny of the warring nations, expresses its cordial gratitude and declares:
- 1st. Its consent to submit the questions related to the conflict of the Chaco Boreal to a legal arbitration, as well [as] its willingness to sign an instrument in which such a desire is expressed.
- 2d. That it is disposed by the same instrument to bind itself to consider military operations as ended ipso facto.
- 3d. That it accepts the moral guarantee which the mediatory nations offer in the carrying out of the proposed plan, without prejudice to other effective means for preventing the renewal of the conflict and for assuring the calm progress of subsequent negotiations.”
Horn
- Latter not printed.↩