Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1943, The American Republics, Volume V

824.01/91: Telegram

The Ambassador in Bolvia (Boal) to the Secretary of State

La Paz, December 23, 1943—10 a.m.
[Received 11:28 a.m.]

2000. The following resolution said by Paz Estenssoro¹¹ and Victor Andrade¹² to have been passed unanimously by the Junta yesterday was conveyed to me indirectly from Andrade today.

“The new Government of Bolivia has defined its intention to make effective cooperation with the United Nations and especially with the United States in their war effort against the Axis Powers, cooperation arising from the adherence of Bolivia to the United Nations pact¹³ and the state of war with the Totalitarian Nations in which it is. The measures to be adopted will be taken without vacillation within the briefest periods and without the useless verbiage which has been characteristic of the deposed government.

The topics which we are considering which interest both countries are the following, and which will be resolved with consideration for the necessities of aid to the United Nations and the needs of the Bolivian people: (1) Contract concerning exclusive exportation of quinine bark and anti-malarial products to the United States, installation of a modern factory for the production of quinine and other anti-malarial products. Agreement concerning cooperation for the establishment of cinchona plantations and training of technicians in the subject. (2) Nationalization of businesses and firms of German and Japanese citizens. Freezing of funds arising from the sale of the nationalized businesses. Agreements for the financing of said program. (3) New contract concerning the sale of tin at a higher price than at present, specifying that a part of the increase in price shall be invested in a plan of social assistance that will improve the living conditions of the mining laborers.”

Boal

11. Victor Paz Estenssoro, Minister of Finance in the Junta.
12. Minister of Labor, Hygiene, and Social Welfare in the Junta.
13. For text of Declaration by United Nations, signed at Washington, January 1, 1942, see Foreign Relations, 1942, vol. i, p. 25. With regard to Bolivia’s adherence to the Declaration and entry into the war, see post, pp. 543 ff.