724.3415/3714: Telegram
The Minister in Uruguay (Wright) to the Secretary of State
[Received 8:32 p.m.]
40. The Minister for Foreign Affairs has just informed me by memorandum that his Government has replied to the League of Nations that Uruguay will join in the measures upon which the Council of the League may agree concerning an embargo on arms to the Chaco belligerents but that such embargo to be effective should be with the acquiescence of the bordering countries. The memorandum continues that notwithstanding the foregoing and being aware of our proposed legislation in this regard the Uruguayan Minister at Washington will be telegraphically informed that this Government is desirous of knowing our thought in the matter in order to assure a harmonious attitude on Uruguay’s part, which is all the more necessary because Uruguay is convinced that the cooperation of the United States is indispensable to the efficacy of the measures proposed by the British representative on the Council of the League.