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The Acting Secretary of State to the Chairman of the American Delegation to the Seventh International Conference of American States (Hull)

69. Your 50, December 12, 5 p.m. The President has authorized you to deliver the following message from him to the President of the Conference:

“I wish to express to Your Excellency my fervent and devout hope that the efforts which I understand are being made by the Conference, both individually and collectively, the efforts being made by the League of Nations, by His Excellency the President of Uruguay, and those cooperating with him, and by all other agencies to bring about a cessation of the tragic warfare between Bolivia and Paraguay may speedily result in overwhelming success.”

Phillips