710.1012 Washington/21
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Argentina ( Bliss )72
Sir: [Here follow five paragraphs, the same, mutatis mutandis, as the first five paragraphs in instruction No. 1364, April 14, 1928, to the Ambassador in Brazil, printed supra.]
I desire you confidentially and discreetly to obtain such information as may be possible with regard to the attitude of the Argentine Government on the question of arbitration and conciliation. I also desire that you informally and discreetly suggest to the Government of Argentina that, as the Gondra Treaty has been signed and ratified by a majority of the countries members of the Pan American Union, it would be a decided step forward on the subject of conciliation if the Gondra Treaty could become effective as to all the countries members of the Pan American Union before the conference meets in Washington next December. This would leave the subject of arbitration for primary consideration at the conference. You may informally state to the Government of Argentina that the United States Government sincerely hopes that the Government of Argentina will see its way to ratify the Gondra Treaty and deposit ratification thereof at Santiago, Chile, before the conference.
I am [etc.]
- The same, mutatis mutandis, on the same date, to the chiefs of missions in Bolivia (No. 346), Colombia (No. 1057), Costa rica (No. 447), Dominican Republic (No. 239), Guatemala (No. 1070), Honduras (No. 250), Nicaragua (No. 346), Panama (No. 631), Peru (No. 432), and Salvador (No. 124). A similar instruction was sent to the mission in Ecuador on May 9, 1928 as No. 586.↩