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The Argentine Ministry for Foreign Affairs to the Department of State43
The Argentine Embassy in Washington has communicated to its Government that it has been informed by His Excellency, the President of the United States, of the lofty principles with which he is considering the political disturbances in the Republic of Cuba, and of his ardent desire not to be obliged to intervene, notwithstanding the Piatt Amendment.
The Argentine Government is grateful for the information which has so kindly been communicated to it and is pleased to learn that the action which the Chief Executive proposes to follow will correspond to those high ideals. It does not doubt that he will be able to maintain them, whatever may be the course of events which take place in the sister Republic, and which the Argentine people are observing with such heaviness of heart. The statements made will do honor to American traditions and by their example history will know that no state arrives at the maturity of democracy and the fullness of destiny without experiencing, as a necessary accompaniment, the travail of difficult conflicts.
The capacity to maintain order and to assure the reign of law emerges by itself as a fruit of this experience within the exercise of sovereignty, which must be characterized by absolute internal autonomy and complete external independence. Such principles are developed by a formative process in all youthful nations and, especially in recent times, by the demonstration that the reestablishment of normality requires a natural flow in the spontaneous development of national tendencies.
Argentina has invariably supported such doctrines throughout the course of its history. It believes that the only method which will assure on this continent the stability of political institutions is the maintenance of those standards as the mainstay of justice and international peace. It is confident that the Cuban people will overcome the difficulties through which they are passing, and will be able to find a way to pursue their destiny, free to follow out the dictates of patriotism and the love of fatherland.