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The Minister in Bolivia (Des Portes) to the Secretary of State
[Received 5:50 p.m.]
66. Foreign Minister informed me this afternoon that the League Chaco Commission of 22 countries has been named to include the United States and Brazil, and that the Bolivian delegate at Geneva has expressed to him the thought that if the Assembly unanimously invites the United States to form part perhaps the Department will accept; he also stated that the Bolivian Congress will telegraph Washington requesting such acceptance, and that all Bolivia hopes for it. In his own name the Minister for Foreign Affairs requests me to state that a United States refusal will place Bolivia in a very difficult position since he considers United States participation very important and he wishes the Bolivian request to the United States to be made with the utmost warmth. He pointed out that United States participation in the Leticia conciliation is a precedent.