635.4131/106
The Chargé in Argentina (White) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received June 12.]
Sir: A well informed person has communicated to Dr. Dye and myself that he had been told by someone who had seen the actual dossier, that in the files of the Roca Mission was the memorandum of a conversation in which Dr. Roca was informed by the British authorities that any agreement entered into within a period of six months prior to the beginning of the World Economic Conference in London must be considered as provisional and that should subsequent arrangements be made, for instance, between the United States and Great Britain, or between the United States and Argentina, the Roca agreement would be subject to modification.
This statement lends additional color to the circumstance that the whole of the Roca agreement is made subject to the conclusion of the tariff negotiations which are to start this month. (See despatch No. 2076 of May 19.)
Respectfully yours,