824.00/948: Telegram
The Minister in Bolivia (Dawson) to the Secretary of State
[Received 10:35 p.m.]
55. The Legation’s telegram number 54, August 27, 5 p.m. British Minister has now received instructions to take no action at present tending to recognize Provisional Government.
New Minister of Foreign Affairs is inviting Chiefs of Mission to meet him at 5 p.m. tomorrow. It is my interpretation that I should not attend in view of Department’s 24, August 26, 5 p.m.
Manifesto of Baldivieso claiming Presidency is circulating today but I do not believe he has any chance of assuming power. General unpopularity of and pressure on Quintanilla is such, however, that it seems likely he will resign shortly and be replaced by Bilbao, Commander-in-Chief and strongest man in the army.