Office of the Historian

824.01/63: Telegram

The Minister in Uruguay (Lay) to the Secretary of State

Montevideo, July 20, 1937—9 p.m.
[Received 10:43 p.m.]

26. Department’s 15, July 19, 7 p.m.23 Reed24 saw Foreign Minister who stated that he is not aware of the receipt by his Legation at La Paz of officer referred to, that as to recognition of new Government he instructed Uruguayan Legation to associate itself with other powers signatory to Chaco agreements and that he has no information [Page 269] regarding stability, composition, authority or popular support of the new Government.

Lay
  1. See footnote 14, p. 261.↩
  2. Leslie E. Reed, First Secretary of Legation.↩