810.34 Leasing/23a: Circular telegram
The Secretary of State to the Diplomatic Missions in Bolivia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and Paraguay
[Here follows text the same as in circular of August 9, 6 p.m., page 151, with addition of paragraph here printed inserted before final paragraph of that circular.]
4. The proposed leases of destroyers would under no circumstances be made in such instances or in such a manner as would serve to promote armaments races as among nations or to stimulate the establishment of naval forces in those countries which do not now have naval forces; nor would leases in any other respect be made in a way that would be inconsistent with the principles for the maintenance of peace and disarmament incorporated in the treaties, conventions and resolutions of the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace at Buenos Aires,11 and with the principles of this Government’s [Page 158] foreign policy which I had occasion to summarize in my statement of July 16 last.12
- See Department of State Conference Series No. 33: Report of the Delegation of the United States of America to the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace, Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 1–23, 1936.↩
- Vol. i, p. 699.↩