724.3415/4283: Telegram (part air)
The Consul at Geneva (Gilbert) to the Secretary of State
[Received October 25—12:30 p.m.]
301. Avenol asked me to come to see him today and showed me in confidence a telegram from the Bolivian Government to the Bolivian representative here which the latter had transmitted to him privately for his information. The text of the telegram is substantially as follows:
The United States Government has recently made a démarche at La Paz to the effect that, understanding that the conciliation efforts at Geneva respecting the Chaco were unsuccessful, some attempt should be made in America to arrive at conciliation before the issuance of the Assembly report at the end of November.
I estimate the situation here to be that Bolivia’s policy at least in part is to place herself in as favorable a light as possible before the League in the hope of obtaining either through the Assembly report or as a result of that report a lifting of the embargo either respecting both parties or respecting herself.