724.3415/4088: Telegram
The Consul at Geneva (Gilbert) to the Secretary of State
[Received 1:35 p.m.]
223. At the opening meeting of the 81st session of the Council this morning Beneš of Czechoslovakia presided.54
Council adopted a resolution on the Chaco matter transferring the dispute to the Assembly in accordance with paragraph 9 of article No. 15 of the Covenant. The resolution provides further that “The duties which the Council may have to fulfill in accordance with the Covenant remain unaffected by the present decision.”
The only discussion consisted of statements by the representatives of Bolivia and Paraguay. The former reiterated his Government’s “express reservation concerning the illegality of embargo measures taken under cover of the Covenant but outside of its provisions relating [Page 79] to sanctions”. The latter repeated the reservation previously-advanced concerning the legal objections to the application of article 15 during the continuation of hostilities.
- See League of Nations, Official Journal, November 1934, p. 1530.↩