724.3415/4959: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Argentina (Weddell)
71. Your 75, June 12, 3 a.m. For Gibson. At the first appropriate moment after the formal signature of the two protocols, please express [Page 77] to the members of the Mediation Commission and to the two Foreign Ministers of the belligerent powers the deep gratification of the Government of the United States upon the reaching of this pacific solution of the Chaco dispute which has for so many years been the subject of grave concern to all of the republics of the Western Hemisphere. You may likewise say that it is the earnest hope of this Government that the agreement reached today may prove a foundation for those helpful and mutually profitable relationships between Bolivia and Paraguay as well as between them and the other nations of this continent envisaged in the pertinent articles of the principal protocol.