725.34/32: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Argentina (Weddell)
82. Your 119, August 13, 10 a.m. Since the receipt of your cable referred to the Department is informed by the Argentine Ambassador here of the contents of a cable sent from Buenos Aires at 3 o’clock this afternoon by the Argentine Foreign Office in which the Ambassador is advised that the Government of Paraguay has definitely assured the Argentine Government that the last paragraph of the suggested formula is acceptable to Paraguay provided that the word “Paraguay” is omitted from it.
Please advise Dr. Saavedra Lamas immediately that this Government will gladly express to the Government of Chile through the American Embassy in Santiago its urgent hope that the formula proposed by Dr. Saavedra Lamas may be acceptable to it and that the basis of agreement so proposed may bring about an immediate resumption of normal diplomatic relations between Chile and Paraguay. Please extend to Dr. Saavedra Lamas my warm felicitations upon his earnest endeavors to bring about a satisfactory and prompt termination of this diplomatic incident and express to him the wish of this Government that his efforts may be entirely successful as well as the hope that as soon as this incident is settled rapid and satisfactory progress may be made in furthering the solution of the Chaco dispute based upon the Argentine conciliation formula.