840.50/2446: Telegram

The Ambassador in Paraguay (Frost) to the Secretary of State

466. Department’s circular telegram August 5, 9 p.m. regarding Colombian proposals to South American nations which have not declared war on the Axis.

Foreign Minister28 informed me this morning that Paraguay will reply to Colombia in the sense that global and all inclusive American unity must be permanently inalterable and that Paraguay is fundamentally contrary to any proposals which might tend toward the formation of blocs or groups within that unity. Foregoing language is textually that of Foreign Minister if my memory serves me and was twice repeated. He sensed in Colombian démarche a danger to continental solidarity which to him is sacred and mentioned again his personal thesis that future wars will be between continents not nations so that this hemisphere must be welded into cohesive unit.

Frost
  1. Luis A. Argaña.