724.3415/4323
The Secretary of
State to the Minister in El Salvador (Corrigcm)
No. 48
Washington, November 22, 1934.
Sir: With reference to your despatch No. 88
dated October 17, 1934,57 regarding the Salvadoran proposal for a Chaco
armistice there are transmitted for your further information copies
of communications under date of October 25 and 26, 1934, from the
Foreign Minister of El Salvador to the Secretary, together with
enclosures to the former of the two notes mentioned.58
There is likewise transmitted a reply which you are requested to
deliver to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. A copy of this reply is
also forwarded for the Legation’s files.
Very truly yours.
For the Secretary of State:
Sumner Welles
[Enclosure]
The Secretary of
State to the Salvadorm Minister for Foreign
Affairs (Araujo)
Washington, November 22,
1934.
Excellency: I thank Your Excellency for
your courteous note of October 25, 1934, with further reference
to your note of September 12, last, transmitting for my
Government’s information a copy of the communications which you
addressed on the former date to the Ministers for Foreign
Affairs of Bolivia and Paraguay, regarding the initiative taken
by your Government looking to a peaceful solution of
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the Chaco controversy.
I also acknowledge the receipt of your note of October 26, 1934,
on the same subject, for which I thank you.
As Your Excellency is already aware, this Government stands ready
to support any move acceptable to the parties to the dispute
which, in its judgment, offers reasonable hope for success. My
Government would be most happy were the initiative taken by El
Salvador to result in ending the state of war which unhappily
exists between two of our sister nations. Accordingly, and in
harmony with the views which the Minister of the United States
in El Salvador expressed under instructions to your Government
on October 5, 1934, this Government would be happy to lend its
cooperation, in due time, should Your Excellency’s proposal
prosper, and should the proposal prove acceptable to the
Governments of Bolivia and Paraguay.
Accept [etc.]
