835.5151/638: Telegram
The Consul General at Buenos Aires ( Burdett ) to the Secretary of State
Buenos
Aires
, March 5,
1937—10 a.m.
[Received March 5—9:45 a.m.]
[Received March 5—9:45 a.m.]
Because of representations made by the Government-owned oil company, the Argentine Government has decided to grant between 5½ and 6 million pesos of official dollar exchange to importers of American crude petroleum in 1937. Have informed the Embassy.
Air mail report follows.
Burdett