834.01/30: Telegram
President Roosevelt to the Provisional President of Paraguay (Franco)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency’s cabled communication of March 5th. It has been with the utmost satisfaction that I have learned from Your Excellency’s message of the determination of your Government faithfully to carry out its international obligations and to know that in accordance with that decision the Government of Paraguay is proceeding without delay with the repatriation of its prisoners of war.
This Government has therefore reached the conclusion, after consultation with the Governments of the other American Republics represented at the Peace Conference at Buenos Aires, that it is the express intention of Your Excellency’s Government to respect in every way the peace protocols signed in Buenos Aires on June 12, 1935, and on the 21st of January, 1936. I have, consequently, with much pleasure, instructed the Minister of the United States in Paraguay to inform Your Excellency’s Government that the Government of the United States will be pleased to maintain with the Government of Paraguay the friendly relations that have been traditional between our two countries.
I avail myself of this occasion to extend to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest consideration and to express my best wishes for the welfare and prosperity of the people of the Republic of Paraguay.