Office of the Historian

724.3415/3816: Telegram (part air)

The Consul at Geneva (Gilbert) to the Secretary of State

Geneva, June 8, 1934—2 p.m.
[Received June 11—6:18 a.m.]

145. Emphasizing the inequitable character of an arms embargo against both parties, the Bolivian representative in a communication to the Secretary General declares that Paraguay’s arsenals at Puerto Sajonia and a munitions factory at Campo Grande specifies in detail the war supplies manufactured in Paraguay and states that Bolivia’s dependence on foreign factories places her in an inferior position.

Gilbert