500.C 112/437: Telegram
The Minister in Switzerland (Wilson) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 11—4:15 p.m.]
119. Member of Secretariat telephoned from Lugano that Council had adopted resolution in afternoon session which had first been released to the press. Under this Briand, as acting [President] despatched identical notes to the Paraguayan and Bolivian Governments inviting attention to the frontier incidents between them which constituted “menace to peace” and recalled their obligations under the Covenant as members of the League to settle their differences by pacific means.63 The messages made it clear that no specific means were recommended.
My informant stated that the members of the Council had been convinced that they would be delinquent if they evaded their clear duty in this connection; nevertheless they had all borne deeply in mind the relation of the United States to this question and had endeavored so to frame the message that it could not be interpreted as contravening the Monroe Doctrine or conflicting with any possible action on our part.
- League of Nations, Documentation Concerning the Dispute Between Bolivia and Paraguay (C. 619.M.195.1928.VII), p. 3.↩