724.3415/4025: Telegram
The Ambassador in Brazil (Gibson) to the Secretary of State
[Received 5 p.m.]
177. 1. Brazilian Ambassador in Buenos Aires advises that he has received Paraguayan note definitely accepting all seven bases for conciliation.
2. Brazilian Ambassador in conference with Bolivian Minister last night requested latter to urge his Government to accept the seven [Page 176] bases, leaving all matters of a technical nature to be decided by the conciliation commission, promising confidentially to support at that time Bolivia’s claim to a port on the Paraguay River. Minister for Foreign Affairs is instructing Brazilian Minister in La Paz confidentially to make this known to the Bolivian Minister for Foreign Affairs and to urge acceptance upon this basis of the original seven points.
3. Minister for Foreign Affairs is telegraphing Washington to request you to support confidentially this proposal.
Repeated to Buenos Aires.