724.34119/237: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Paraguay (Howard)
16. The Department is advised that the Chaco Peace Conference at Buenos Aires handed to the Bolivian and Paraguayan delegations at a plenary meeting on October 15 a comprehensive plan for the solution of the whole Chaco conflict, together with an explanatory statement in writing. Copies of the proposal and explanatory statement are being sent by mail to La Paz where they will be delivered to the Government by the Argentine Minister on behalf of the Chairman of the Conference; and as there is for the moment no Argentine diplomatic representative in Asunción, the same documents are being sent by mail to you for delivery to the Paraguayan Government as coming from the Chairman of the Conference.
When you deliver the documents to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, please state to him orally, without leaving any aide-mémoire, that your Government believes that this proposal offers a highly satisfactory basis for agreement and that it is the fervent hope of your Government that it may be accepted by both Paraguay and Bolivia, thereby bringing this tragic conflict to a final and peaceful termination. You may add that your colleague at La Paz is expressing identical views to the Bolivian Government.