840.48 Refugees/537a: Circular telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Argentina (Weddell)

Department’s circular, June 14, 6 p.m. Following is the text of the resolution adopted on July 14 by the Intergovernmental Meeting on Political Refugees.

[Here follows text of the resolution as transmitted in telegram No. 21, July 14, 5 p.m., supra.]

In bringing this resolution to the attention of the Argentine Government please express our appreciation for the assistance which it has already given and our sincere hope that it will continue this fruitful cooperation by appointing a representative to attend the meetings of the continuing body at London, the first of which will be held on August 3. You may also state that it would add to the success of the first meeting and help to expedite a solution of this serious question if the Argentina Government could see its way clear to giving appropriate instructions to any representative who may be appointed to attend the London meetings.

Same telegram is to be repeated mutatis mutandis to the following countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela.

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