File No. 811.607AF/30a
The Secretary of State to the Argentine Chargé ( Quintana )1
Sir: Section 4 of an act of Congress entitled “An Act to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, the purpose of an act entitled ‘An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by stimulating agriculture and facilitating the distributing of agricultural products’ and for other purposes,” approved November 21, 1918, authorizes the President “to extend an invitation to other nations to appoint delegates or representatives to the Farmers’ National Congress to be held at Jacksonville, Florida, in connection with the Pan American International Farmers’ and Livestock Exposition.”
In pursuance of this authority, I have the honor and the pleasure to extend, in the President’s behalf, to the Government of the Argentine Republic an invitation to be represented by delegates at the congress mentioned.
I am informed by the Director General of the congress that the sessions of the congress will be held from December 3 to 9, inclusive. As time will not allow for the sending of delegates from your country, I have the honor to make known to you the desire of the management of the congress that you or some one you may designate to represent your Embassy may find it convenient and agreeable to attend the congress.
I regret to add that the act mentioned makes no provision for defraying the expenses of those who may attend in acceptance of the invitation.
Accept [etc.]
- Mutatis mutandis, on the same date, to the Embassies of Brazil, Chile, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and Spain, and the Legations of Belgium, Bolivia, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Montenegro, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Persia, Peru, Portugal, Roumania, Salvador, Serbia, Siam, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, and Venezuela.↩