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Memorandum by the Chief of the Division of Latin American Affairs (Wilson)
Ambassador Espil’s note of June 22, 1933, dealing with the question of the entry of mutton from Patagonia, states:
“The question raised by that communication was the subject of serious consideration during the last Administration and the undersigned [Page 782] received all kinds of promises that a satisfactory solution of this matter would be obtained.”
I know of no “promises” that a satisfactory solution of this matter would be obtained, and there is no record in the files of any having been made. I have mentioned this matter to Mr. White,47 who states that he knows of no “promises” in the matter. Secretary Stimson took the matter up with Secretary Hyde but was unable to get anywhere with it.
The only “promises” made to Ambassador Espil were those contained in letters from Agriculture, which we transmitted to the Argentine Embassy, offering to send experts to Argentina to look into the meat situation. The Argentine Government, however, wanted Dr. Mohler48 to go and when it found that Mohler could not go, indicated that it did not want the other experts to visit Argentina.