724.3415/3922: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Argentina (Weddell)
66. Upon receipt yesterday of information that the Brazilian Government had determined to support the conciliation formula and had instructed its Minister in La Paz accordingly, this Government immediately instructed the American Minister in La Paz to represent to the Bolivian Government the earnest hope of the Government of the United States that the Bolivian Government would be disposed to accept the formula presented to it. Similar representations have been made in the most urgent manner this morning to the Bolivian Minister in Washington. You may inform Dr. Saavedra Lamas accordingly.
For your own information and for such use thereof as you may deem appropriate in your conversations with the Argentine Minister for Foreign Affairs, this Government believes that the successful result of the present negotiations can only be obtained by making it possible for the Bolivian Government to suggest such modifications to the formula as it may deem fitting and desirable, provided solely that the modifications suggested do not change the essential features of the formula as now drafted. It would be deeply regrettable if the possibility of the reaching of a satisfactory accord were impeded by the insistence on the part of either the Government of Paraguay or the Government of Argentina upon some technicality of no fundamental importance. It is further believed that the active support of the essential features of the formula by the Governments of Brazil and of the United States and their continued active participation in the progress of negotiations would be the strongest possible inducement to Bolivia to accept the proffered invitation and furthermore, that the eventual cooperation by the other republics of this continent suggested by this Government would under present conditions be favorably regarded by Bolivia and would act as a further inducement.
Please express to Dr. Saavedra Lamas the satisfaction felt by this Government at its ability to cooperate in the interests of peace with his Government and with that of Brazil and express to him our earnest hope that he will keep this Government fully advised both of his views and of all phases in the development of the existing negotiations. You may add that this Government will be particularly glad to keep in constant contact with the Argentine Foreign Office in order that we may thus transmit to him all information of a pertinent nature that comes to our attention as well as our own observations concerning developments.