724.3415/3975a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Argentina ( Weddell )15
73. By instruction of his Government, the Bolivian Minister in Washington informs the Department in clarification of the Bolivian reply to the Argentine proposal that the statement made by Bolivia in the latter part of her reply, to the effect that Bolivia must be given an outlet to the Paraguay River as a sine qua non, was intended to be regarded solely as a confidential statement for the information of the mediating nations and is not to be considered in any sense as a condition imposed for participation by Bolivia in the Conciliation Conference; furthermore, that this statement had reference solely to the Conciliation Conference and not to arbitration and that Bolivia would agree to arbitration in the broadest sense by the Permanent Court at The Hague.
This information, which appears to be highly satisfactory, as an evidence of Bolivia’s willingness to participate in conciliation negotiations and to agree to arbitration if conciliation proves impracticable, has been communicated confidentially to the Argentine Ambassador here and to the Brazilian Government. You may, of course, refer to it in your further conversations with Dr. Saavedra Lamas.
- A similar telegram was sent, August 1, to the Ambassador in Brazil as No. 92.↩