Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1938, The American Republics, Volume V

724.34119/1598: Telegram

President Roosevelt to the President of the Chaco Peace Conference (Cantilo)

Washington, August 30, 1938—6:29 p.m.

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram dated August 29⁵⁶ informing me that ratifications of the Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Boundaries signed by Bolivia and Paraguay on the 21st day of July 1938 have been exchanged.

I am pleased to advise you that having accepted the honor which the parties have conferred upon me in designating me arbitrator together with the Presidents of the other mediatory countries, I have decided in accordance with the faculty granted me by Article 3 of said treaty to delegate my duties as arbitrator to the Honorable Spruille Braden, Delegate of the United States to the Peace Conference, to whom I grant full power by the present telegram which I will confirm in writing, so that in my name and stead he may make the award agreed upon in the treaty signed July 21st.

I take this opportunity [etc.]

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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