File No. 835.415A/99.
The American Chargé d’Affaires to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Buenos Aires, November 30, 1910.
Mr. Minister: I have the honor to advise your excellency that in September of last year the United States minister, Mr. Sherrill, advised Dr. V. de la Plaza, then minister for foreign affairs and [Page 6] worship, that the citizens of the United States residing in Argentina were desirous of presenting a statue to this Republic in commemoration of her centennial of independence. Since then the matter has not been treated except by an exchange of notes between your excellency’s Department and this legation.
A committee appointed by the citizens of the United States residing in this Republic have now called to inform me that the compatriots they represent desire to express their high appreciation of the advantages which they continue to enjoy under the free and enlightened Government of the Argentine Republic, and see no more fitting way of so doing than to present to your excellency’s Government a statue of George Washington in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the independence which Argentina celebrates this year. At the request of this committee, and in the name of the citizens of the United States residing in this Republic, I have the honor to offer through your excellency to His Excellency the President of the Nation a statue of George Washington, in token of their desire to participate in the centennial anniversary of independence by a gift to the Argentine Nation.
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