710.H Continental Solidarity/55: Telegram
The Minister in Venezuela (Gonzalez) to the Secretary of State
[Received 8:17 p.m.]
113. Only for the President. Following information confidentially learned from the Minister of Foreign Relations conveyed herein to you directly because of its immediate importance and because your leadership and counteraction are as they have been manifestly the only effective instruments to overcome opposition and to sustain the success of the Latin American policy established by you.
[Page 51]Was informed that German and Italian observers are to be at Lima Conference to spread influence action against questions of defense, etc. and to oppose any success by us at the Conference by creation of a bloc. The Minister for Foreign Affairs showed me a cabled instruction to the Venezuelan delegation instructing it to cooperate in every way with the delegations of the United States and of Brazil and further that on controversial questions no opposition in open debate should be made to the position taken by the above mentioned countries, differences if any to be discussed privately with a view to reaching amicable agreements.
Have advised Secretary Hull at Lima.