Office of the Historian

824.6363 St. 2/579: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé in Bolivia (Dawson)

Washington, March 11, 1942—6 p.m.

143. Your 141, March 7, noon and 144, March 9, noon.52 Please inform the Minister of Foreign Affairs that I agree with you that his suggestion is not practicable. You may, if appropriate, mention that the United States has considered sympathetically the blocked sterling problems of Bolivia, and that in the past the Department interceded in a small way with the British in connection with the utilization of blocked sterling in acquiring grain from Argentina.

Welles
  1. Latter not printed; this telegram indicated that the Foreign Minister now realized that it was impractical to use blocked sterling (824.6363 St. 2/581).↩