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The Ambassador in Argentina ( Weddell ) to the Secretary of State
[Received 8:50 p.m.]
143. From Braden. My 139, August 17, 5 p.m. Paraguayan Minister to Argentina delivered today a note to the Foreign Office requesting recognition. In order to meet the problem posed by me on Monday the Argentine Minister for Foreign Affairs will deliver tomorrow confidentially to the Paraguayan Minister the following
“It is advisable that the new Paraguayan Government by note or telegram to the conference declare its purpose to comply with the pacts and agreements signed in Buenos Aires on the Chaco question and its intention to pursue the negotiations with the conference in a determined way to find a just solution of the fundamental question in accordance with the protocols in force”.
It should be noted that “pacts” refers to the protocols and “agreements” to all other conference documents such as January 9 bases.14 [Braden.]
- Bases for Drafting Regulations in the Chaco, Buenos Aires, January 9, 1937; Annex 28 in The Chaco Peace Conference, p. 106.↩