File No. 835.032/15.
[Inclosure—Extract—Translation.]
[Untitled]
At the opening of your last ordinary session, I communicated to you
the steps that had been taken by the Argentine Government, in
conjunction with the Governments of Brazil and Chile, to arrive at a
solution of the armed conflict that had a short time previously
arisen between the United States of America and Mexico. I said to
you then: “It will be a great day for America when peace is
reestablished between these nations, through a friendly mediation
which aims at terminating a conflict which is contrary to the spirit
of solidarity and of harmony, linked together in a community of
sentiment in the Pan-American Congresses.”
This desire has been realized, and in a measure beyond that which in
our most optimistic moods we thought possible. When the conference
met at Niagara Falls the representatives of the belligerent
countries approached the study of their subject in an atmosphere of
the greatest harmony, under the auspices of the diplomats of the
mediating countries. The high spirit of equanimity which presided at
the meetings allowed both parties to find a solution of their
problems worthy of both adversaries, and as a consequence, a peace
protocol was signed, whose stipulations were accepted without
protest and carried out loyally. In this way, a conflict that had
led to the outbreak of hostilities and which threatened the serenity
of the whole continent was peacefully and decorously settled.
I have reason to think that the solution so happily arrived at in
this case has met with equal sympathy both in the two countries
concerned and in the three nations which lent the weight of their
moral influence to the mediation.
Shortly after the signing of the protocol, the United States
Government and the Government of Mexico expressed their gratitude to
the mediators in cordial and effusive terms, significant for the
unanimity they evidenced and for the marks of spontaneity they
bore.
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From the first moment our chancellery accepted the proposition of the
United States to establish closer financial relations between the
Republics of America. When we were invited to send a representative
to the Financial Congress shortly to be held in Washington for the
purpose, the Executive Power appointed Mr. Samuel Hale Pearson,
director of the Bank of the Nation, and Dr. Ricardo C. Aldao, former
Minister of Finance for the Province of Buenos Aires, as delegates
to represent the Argentine Government in this important conference,
at which consideration will not only be given to banking matters but
to transport and commerce between the various countries
concerned.
You were duly informed of the invitation of the United States to this
Government to raise the grading of their respective diplomatic
representations. This proof of friendly deference was peculiarly
agreeable to the Executive Power, for it meant that the progress
made by our country in the realm of the moral and the material was
recognized by the powerful Republic of the north.
To fill the new role, the North American Government has appointed Dr.
Frederic J. Stimson, a distinguished citizen and one exceptionally
well fitted to assume the position. We have appointed Dr. Rómulo S.
Naón to represent us at Washington, where he was formerly our
Minister Plenipotentiary, a man whose earlier capability and skill
and whose brilliant work elected him for the post.
The creation of these two Embassies is a mile-stone on the road of
our diplomatic progress. It is significant of the state of our
international standing, and it binds us still closer to the United
States of America, already linked to this Republic by a similar
act.
