Office of the Historian

740.0011 European War 1939/19143

The Bolivian Chargé (Dorado) to the Secretary of State

[Translation]
Washington, January 29, 1942.

Excellency: I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that I have received instructions from my Government to communicate to Your Excellency that there was signed yesterday the Decree by which diplomatic relations between my country and Germany, Italy, and Japan were severed.

The attitude of my Government is based on the Declaration issued by the Second Consultative Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs held at Habana,14 in which it was agreed to give a continental character to any act of aggression against an American country, and on the Recommendation concerning severance of relations with Axis [Page 519] countries approved by the Third Consultative Meeting at Rio de Janeiro.15

Your Excellency will realize that my country, by this action, reaffirms its spirit of cooperation and continental solidarity, giving effect to the commitments contracted during inter-American conferences.

I take advantage [etc.]

Carlos Dorado
  1. Resolution XV of the Final Act of this meeting held July 21–30, 1940; Department of State Bulletin, August 24, 1940, pp. 127, 136.↩
  2. Resolution I of the Final Act of this meeting held January 15–28, 1942; Department of State Bulletin, February 7, 1942, pp. 117, 118.↩