Office of the Historian

724.34119/1694: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Argentina (Tuck)

Washington, November 23, 1938—5 p.m.

174. For Haden. Your 311, November 22, 4 p.m. You are authorized to sign on behalf of the delegation of the United States the act constituting the Mixed Commission.60 The Department, however, is [Page 177] of the opinion that Article III as drafted is obscure and that it should be revised along the following lines:

“Should differences of opinion arise between the representatives of the two parties on the Mixed Commission with respect to technical and practical questions involved in the application on the ground of the dividing line traced by the arbitral award, the decision of the President of the Mixed Commission shall resolve definitively all such questions.”

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  1. For text of Act of Constitution of the Mixed Commission, see The Chaco Peace Conference, p. 177. For subsequent acts, see ibid., pp. 179 ff.↩