811.73 W 52/92a: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Argentina (Riddle)66

44. Your 57, August 23, 6 P.M.

The President today signed a license authorizing the Western Union Telegraph Company to land and operate at Miami Beach, [Page 538] Florida, a cable extending from there to Barbados where it connects with a cable of the Western Telegraph Company, Limited, going to Brazil.67 The granting of this license was conditioned on the waiver by the Western Telegraph Company and by the All America Cables, Inc., of their exclusive privileges in South America. This action was taken after satisfactory expressions were received from the Governments of South America concerned regarding the waivers of the Western Telegraph Company and All America Cables.

You may convey to the Argentine Government an expression of this Government’s appreciation of the sympathetic consideration which was accorded by the Government of Argentina to the proposal of this Government and the Companies concerned looking to the removal of restrictive monopolies in cable communications, and express the hope that the way is now open for free and beneficial competition for cable traffic and for the establishment of additional cable facilities between North America and South America and between the countries of South America resulting in closer business relations, freer exchange of ideas and more intimate association of the people of the Western hemisphere.

Phillips
  1. The same, mutatis mutandis, to Brazil (no. 131), to Colombia (no. 43), to Ecuador (no. 21), to Peru (no. 55), and to Uruguay (no. 15). (File nos, 811.73 W 52/92c, 92f, 92d, 92e, 92b.)
  2. The license, however, bears the date of Aug. 24.