740.24112 A/11–3044
The Bolivian Subsecretary of Foreign Affairs (Flores) to the American Chargé in Bolivia (McLaughlin)60
Mr. Chargé d’affaires: With reference to the Embassy’s estimable note no. 536 of October 23 past,61 and, in addition equally to note no. 367 of this chancellery under date of the 9th of the same month,61 it is an honor for me to express to your Excellency that the Government of Bolivia will in no event execute the program for the expropriation of the principal firms of the Axis without its having been previously sanctioned by the Legislature—in this case by the Honorable National Convention—and thereafter through the promulgation by the Executive Power of the Decree-Law of February 10 of the present year and the Regulamentary Decree of March 31 last, both of which relate to the expropriation of commercial and industrial enterprises belonging to subjects of the Axis, as laws of the Republic, inasmuch as this is provided for in the Political Constitution of the State.
I take this opportunity [etc.]
Subsecretary of Foreign Affairs