724.34119/1467: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the President of the Chaco Peace Conference (Cantilo)
I have been directed by the President to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency’s telegram of July 10 in which, as President of the Peace Conference, you ask if President Roosevelt would accept the post as one of the arbitrators under Article II of the draft Treaty [Page 171] of Peace, Friendship and Boundaries, which has already met the approval of the Delegations of both Bolivia and Paraguay. It has been noted that the Presidents of the six mediatory nations shall act as arbitrators and that they shall be empowered to make the award directly or through plenipotentiary delegates.
President Roosevelt has requested me to inform Your Excellency that he is pleased to accept the honor of appointment as one of the arbitrators, but in view of his manifold other duties, he has decided to delegate his functions as arbitrator to the Delegate of the United States to the Peace Conference. Appropriate instructions authorizing the Delegate of the United States to act for the President, in the event that the treaty is signed and ratified, have been telegraphed to the Delegate of the United States.
Accept [etc.]