724.34119/705: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Argentina (Weddell)
177. For Braden. The following information has been furnished to the Department by the Bolivian Minister with the comment that a similar statement is being submitted by Bolivian Legations to the Foreign Offices of the other mediatory countries.
“Repeated reports worthy of credit have been brought to the attention of the Bolivian Government that Paraguay has concentrated 5,000 men in Concepción and 500 in Bahía Negra and that Puerto Casado is under a military regime identical to that of the war period. The reports add that Paraguay appears to be awaiting the termination of its preparations in order to precipitate belligerent actions. The Bolivian delegation at the Peace Conference has been instructed to advise the Conference that the national Government will be obliged to decree general mobilization in the event that the mediating body does not give ample guaranties that hostilities will not be renewed by Paraguay and that the said body shall assume all of the responsibilities arising from the Buenos Aires Protocol.”