724.3415/954: Telegram
The Chargé in Switzerland (Moffat) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received January 24—2:40 p.m.]
10. Drummond54 last night repeated by telegraph to the Governments of Bolivia and Paraguay and to all members of Council the [Page 332] following message from Zaleski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland:
“Concerned at news regarding Chaco Boreal. Requesting you in my capacity Acting President of the Council of the League of Nations to recall to Bolivian and Paraguayan Governments that after the session of December 1928, the then Acting President of the Council, Aristide Briand, and last September the League Assembly, congratulated the two noble nations on having adopted a pacific procedure for the settlement of their dispute in conformity with the undertakings of the Covenant. I believe I am interpreting the feeling of the Council and of the whole League of Nations in requesting you to express to both Governments our confidence that no serious incident will compromise success of pacific procedure in progress.”
- Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary General of the League of Nations.↩