711.00 Statement July 16, 1937/53: Telegram
The Ambassador in Argentina (Weddell) to the Secretary of State
[Received 5:50 p.m.]
116. My 112, July 27 [26], 5 p.m.50 The following is the text in translation of the memorandum51 received from the Minister for Foreign Affairs in reply to the Secretary’s statement of July 16:
“The Argentine Government has learned with customary satisfaction the statements of the Secretary of State of the United States, Mr. Cordell Hull, whose lofty mind has left such grateful remembrances in Buenos Aires, as has the illustrious President Roosevelt, and shares the wholesome ideas formulated in them.
“It permits itself to request his consideration of the proposed convention giving a universal application to the right of asylum52 which when properly regulated can prevent the inconveniences which it has contained until now, and whose moral significance, once practical questions have been considered, is in singular accord with the attitude of noble humanitarianism which has so often characterized the United States.
“It is the understanding of the Argentine Chancellery that the tendency of the proposed convention implies an element of pacification in pursuance of the line of conduct which should be followed by the American countries . . . .”53 Copy follows by mail.54
Nacion and Prensa published editorials this morning endorsing strongly the Minister’s projected convention on the right of asylum.
- Not printed.↩
- Dated July 28.↩
- See Vol. v, section entitled “Project by Argentina for a Multilateral Convention on Right of Asylum”.↩
- The remainder of the Argentine statement omitted here was withdrawn by the Minister for Foreign Affairs in a note reported in Embassy’s telegram No. 122, August 6, 1 p.m., not printed.↩
- Despatch No. 1688, July 30, not printed.↩