724.3415/3497: Telegram
The Ambassador in Argentina ( Weddell ) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received 6:25 p.m.]
17. Referring to Department’s No. 11, January 17, 2 p.m.,21 following is Secretary’s January 15, noon.
“Your January 14, 4 p.m. According to information from all directions I am wondering if the time is not ripe for the Argentine Government to end Chaco war by insisting on immediate armistice and arbitration. It is now more manifest than ever that the interests of both warring countries require immediate peace and that President Justo and Foreign Minister Saavedra Lamas hold the key to both. Please present my regards to both of them and say how greatly I would appreciate something encouraging and definite from them and how much mine and all other Governments will value this great peace service which I feel satisfied the President and Foreign Minister of the Argentine will soon render. Keep me advised.
Please repeat to Montevideo.”
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