724.3415/3446: Telegram
The Chairman of the American Delegation (Hull) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received December 19—2 p.m.]
71. The Department has no doubt read in the press of the developments in the Chaco situation including the peace which was entered [Page 379] into beginning today to run until December 30 thus allowing time for the two countries to reach a definitive agreement as to demobilization and arbitration.
President of Conference has announced that he hopes to have the two countries sign this definitive agreement at the Conference before it closes.
Each day from its arrival the American delegation has exerted every possible effort for peace in the Chaco. The following telegram just received from our Minister at La Paz.
“I am reliably informed Paraguayan Government has asked truce of 10 days and Bolivia has accepted. League Commission leaves tomorrow for Paraguay. A member of the Commission states that present arrangement is the result of pressure by the American delegation in Montevideo.”