File No. 635.119/226
The Ambassador in Argentina ( Stimson) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 5, 1918, 7.15 p.m.]
My February 27 [26], 12 p.m., and March 2, 2 p.m. I have just had a long conversation with Naón on the lines his talks with Robbins. He is emphatic that there is no immediate possibility of even public opinion favoring a rupture with Germany and thinks that his plan of a treaty for mutual cooperation, commercial, financial and economic, between Argentina and the Allies is not an abstract idea but a concrete measure for [cooperation?] with the Allies. He will not concretely specify in advance the measures to be included in such a convention, but he adverted to the three points mentioned in Embassy’s telegram of March 2, 2 p.m.
He accentuated the fact that all his past activities had been approved by the President, and that he was to be permitted to make declarations of a policy friendly to the United States.
He is to see the President today and I shall see him immediately afterwards. It is evident that he has now no intention of resigning.