Office of the Historian

635.4131/135: Telegram

The Consul General at Buenos Aires (Warren) to the Secretary of State

Buenos Aires, September 27, 1933—10 a.m.
[Received 10:05 a.m.]

Supplementary tariff convention to Roca agreement signed last night.25 Commercial Attaché reporting in detail tariff items affected. Loan agreement not yet made, unable to reach accord on conversion rate.26 Ratification by Congress which adjourns September 30th contingent upon signing loan convention and unblocking British funds.27

Warren
  1. For text of the supplementary tariff convention, see League of Nations Treaty Series, vol. cxliii, p. 79.↩
  2. The loan agreement was signed on September 28; it provided for a conversion rate of 43 pence to 1 gold peso (835.5151/164).↩
  3. Law 11,823 approving the supplementary tariff convention was passed on September 30 and promulgated October 9, 1933 (102.81 Buenos Aires/3).↩