834.00 Revolutions/28: Telegram
The Ambassador in Argentina (Weddell) to the Secretary of State
[Received 5:55 p.m.]
139. From Braden. My 138, August 17, 9 a.m. In view of Paiva’s having exacted from the military leaders their written agreement to his conditions for the acceptance of the presidency (see press despatches), those conditions themselves and his whole background and character, I fear he may take the position that an interim government such as his cannot sign or even negotiate a final peace treaty. This would prevent the conference proceeding with the fundamental question until a constitutional government were elected.
Repeated to Asuncion. [Braden.]