725.34/17: Telegram
The Ambassador in Argentina (Weddell) to the Secretary of State
[Received 5:13 p.m.]
113. This morning the Minister for Foreign Affairs showed me a letter dated today from the Chilean Ambassador here quoting a [Page 304] message from the Chilean Government informing him that in view of the Paraguayan note of recent date self-respect required that Chilean Government withdraw its Minister from Asunción.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs stated explicitly that he did not consider this a rupture of diplomatic relations but that the entire personnel of the Legation would leave Asunción and that the Argentine Government had agreed to take over the archives and that meanwhile he would continue his efforts to rectify this misunderstanding between the two countries.