Office of the Historian

724.3415/3331: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Bolivia (Feely)33

Washington, September 27, 1933—6 p.m.

23. Please express orally and most informally the following views to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.

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This Government is very happy to learn from that of Brazil that the present Chaco negotiations undertaken by the Limitrophe countries under the mandate of the League of Nations are progressing favorably. While not conversant with the details of these negotiations, this Government, inspired by its sincere friendship for both Bolivia and Paraguay, ventures to express its hope that the two countries may be able to arrive at a mutually satisfactory solution of their difficulties.

Hull
  1. The same, mutatis mutandis, September 27, 6 p.m., to the Chargé in Paraguay as No. 27; text repeated for information to the Ambassador in Brazil as No. 72.↩