723.2515/347: Telegram
The Ambassador in Argentina (Stimson) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received 9.50 p.m.]
Your December 4, 7 p.m. I saw the Minister for Foreign Affairs this afternoon and delivered to him a copy of the note as instructed. I went over it very carefully with him and he read it aloud again himself asking me the exact meaning of one or two words and promised to go at once to the President with it. I then asked him [Page 129] whether the Argentine Government had yet taken any action of a similar nature in the Chilean-Peruvian dispute and he said that it had not. He then very earnestly stated to me that he wished, on behalf of the present Government of Argentina, to make the promise that they would never make any intervention in American affairs without advising us at the same time or previously. Then asked him whether the Argentine Government would not instruct its diplomatic representatives at Santiago and Lima to urge moderation on the Chilean and Peruvian Governments in some such manner as the United States had done. I pointed out to him that such identical action would show to the world what he is very anxious to demonstrate namely that the Argentine Government is in close and intimate relations with that of the United States and this argument seemed to impress him very seriously. He assured me that he would go to the President at once with this suggestion.