724.3415/4228: Telegram
The Minister in Paraguay (Nicholson) to the Secretary of State
[Received 2:55 p.m.]
44. I shall observe strictly the instructions in the Department’s telegram No. 37, October 3, 4 p.m.70
Last night in an informal conversation with President Ayala he said that the League of Nations had asked Paraguay to explain the conditions of security she has asked as a condition of the cessation of hostilities. The President said the Paraguayan Government would reply today that it is prepared to appoint a plenipotentiary to appear before the League subcommittee with the object exclusively of arranging for the immediate cessation of hostilities, with a plan of security for maintaining peace, a reduction on the armies and a limitation upon the purchase of war materials. And also stipulations for a system of policing the zone of occupation by each country and a pact of non-aggression under international guaranty. Following an agreement upon these points Paraguay would be prepared to discuss questions of conciliation.