Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 811.3335/14

Ambassador Stimson to the Secretary of State

[Telegrams—Extracts]

American Embassy,
Buenos Aires , July 1, 1917, 11 a.m.

Last night after hearing Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Senate adopted unanimously a resolution in agreement with the Executive to make public their approval of the decision of the President to receive in National waters the North American squadron as of a friendly nation:

For this conduct the Argentine Nation finds authority not only under its own rights of sovereignty but in the principles established in recent Conferences and international declarations and in the Treaty with the United States signed by San José de Flores July 10, 1853.

I respectfully suggest that it would have an excellent effect if I could announce actual coming of the fleet or a unit thereof in my speech before the Argentine public meeting July 4.

Stimson