811.20 Defense (M) Bolivia/269
The Bolivian Minister for Foreign Affairs (Anze Matienzo) to the American Ambassador in Bolivia (Boal)26
[Translation]
La
Paz, July 15, 1942.
Mister Ambassador: I acknowledge receipt of Your Excellency’s kind note, dated today, in which are formulated a plan for the development of the production of rubber in Bolivia and a project for economic collaboration between the United States of America and my country, in furtherance of the Second Resolution of the Third Consultative Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the American Republics at Rio de Janeiro.
- 2.
- I take pleasure in informing Your Excellency that the competent organisms of my Government have studied this proposition and are ready to cooperate in said development work in accordance with the specific propositions which Your Excellency’s note mentions.
- 3.
- I am convinced that this program will constitute a fundamental step toward the carrying out of mutually advantageous economic relations between our two countries as is contemplated in the Resolution adopted at the Rio de Janeiro Conference.
I avail myself [etc.]
Ed. Anze
Matienzo
- Copy transmitted to the Department by the Ambassador in his despatch No. 310, July 17; received July 22.↩