Office of the Historian

824.01/8–946

Memorandum by the Acting Secretary of State to President Truman

Washington, August 9, 1946.

The new government in Bolivia, according to reports received from Ambassador Flack, has now demonstrated its ability to maintain order, and has fully expressed its intention to meet all international commitments. Six other American republics, including Bolivia’s immediate neighbors, Peru and Chile, have already recognized the new government, and our Ambassador yesterday telegraphed that he felt “strongly that recognition by the United States is very important at this stage and should now be extended as soon as possible.”57

Dean Acheson
  1. The following notation appears in the margin: “Approved 8/9/46 Harry Truman.”↩