724.34119/211: Telegram
The Ambassador in Argentina (Weddell) to the Secretary of State
Buenos
Aires, October 1, 1935—9
p.m.
[Received 9:30 p.m.]
[Received 9:30 p.m.]
224. From Gibson. Meeting of neutrals this afternoon taken up with:
- 1.
- Discussion of a boundary line which the Argentine delegation suggests should be presented to the Paraguayans and Bolivians as an informal proposal; this would run diagonally from a point on the Paraguay River north of the town of Bahia Negra but south of the mouth of the Rio Negro to the intersection of latitude 22 degrees south of the equator with the Pilcomayo River. Nothing decided.
- 2.
- Consideration of telegrams from chairman of the Neutral Military Commission stating that as demobilization and other security measures had been completed Commission would disband tomorrow “its tasks being over”. This is entirely inaccurate as the Commission must obviously continue at least for the present to supervise security measures. A reply was therefore drafted instructing the Commission not to disband; the senior members of the Commission were invited to visit Buenos Aires immediately in accordance with a desire expressed by them but they were instructed to maintain adequate representation at their headquarters. A plenary session of the Conference has been called for tomorrow for the purpose of passing a resolution making it clear that the Commission should continue in operation.
- 3.
- The question of having the Conference declare the war at end under the provisions of the June 12th Protocol was postponed despite the Commission’s report since the 90-day demobilization period is considered not to be technically over until October 3rd and in order to enable a check to be made as to the number of men still in Paraguayan and Bolivian armies. [Gibson.]
Weddell