724.3415/3400: Telegram (part air)
The Consul at Geneva (Gilbert) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received November 19—7:42 a.m.]
299. Consulate’s 287, November 18 [8], 4 p.m. Walters, Undersecretary General in charge of political affairs, has shown me a communication from the Chaco Commission to the League quoting a note from the Bolivian Foreign Office, dated November 10, which extends a welcome to the Commission to come to La Paz and expresses the intention of appointing a representative (assessor) on the Commission.
Walters informs me that the League will continue the policy of leaving the disposition as far as possible in the hands of the Commission and in order to avoid confusion and misunderstanding will discourage any attempt by the two parties to have recourse to Geneva for the conduct of negotiations.