710.H Continental Solidarity/101: Telegram
The Chargé in Argentina ( Tuck ) to the Acting Secretary of State
[Received 1:15 p.m.]
331. I telephoned the following to the Secretary of State at Lima this morning.
With reference to your rush telegram of December 23, 3 a.m.,29 Cantilo only returns tomorrow morning. I immediately saw Alvarado, Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Gache, Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs. They both gave me categoric assurances that telegraphic instructions will be sent early this afternoon to Ruiz Moreno to support the compromise proposal of American solidarity reached Thursday with a few minor changes in form and not in substance. Alvarado stated that even these suggested changes were optional and not mandatory.
As regards the joint Ortiz–Vargas telephoned formula to which you refer in your telegram December 23, 3 a.m., I was informed that this formula had been communicated to the Argentine delegation at Lima as a transactional and optional formula only which might be given consideration in the event that joint agreement would not be reached on the Thursday compromise proposal.
Repeated as confirmation to Lima.