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811.20 Defense (M) Bolivia/476: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Bolivia (Boal)

Washington, October 23, 1942—6 p.m.

765. Refer Department’s 738, October 16, 4 p.m.87 Amendments have been prepared to the proposals submitted to the Bolivian Government for the purchase of cinchona bark and anti-malarial products. The text of the amended proposal will be forwarded to the Embassy as soon as possible. In the meantime, you are authorized to inform the Bolivian Government that the amended proposal will be along the following lines:

1.
Defense Supplies Corporation will be committed to the principle that all possible cinchona bark shall be processed in Bolivian plants and that one of the express purposes of the agreement will be the further development and expansion of the cinchona bark processing industry in Bolivia;
2.
Prices for anti-malarial products will be revised upwards;
3.
A minimum sum of $300,000 will be spent in putting the agreement into effect;
4.
Defense Supplies Corporation will agree to sell atabrine to Bolivia at $4.50 per thousand tablets, f.o.b. New York.

None of the previous offers made in the original proposal will be withdrawn in the amended proposal.

With reference to (1) above, information is desired on the present capacity of Bolivian plants and plans for expansion.

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