810.24/69: Telegram
The Ambassador in Argentina (Armour) to the Secretary of State
[Received 8:55 p.m.]
117. Department’s circular June 27, 7 p.m. I am today in receipt of a memorandum from the Foreign Office to the following effect.
“This Chancellery has examined with interest the memorandum which has been transmitted to it by the Embassy of the United States concerning the project submitted to Congress in that country for the purpose of authorizing the eventual cooperation of the United States with the other American Republics for the supply of military and naval material for defensive purposes.
These proposals for cooperation, in view of the extreme situation they contemplate, and the sense of continental solidarity they reflect in the face of problems resulting from the political and military situation of the old world, are consistent with the position publicly adopted by Argentina in the Lima Conference of 1938, with the spirit [Page 13] of the declaration9 signed on that occasion by the 21 American nations, and with the declaration likewise adopted by the Buenos Aires Conference of 1936.
The Argentine Chancellery takes note of the project transmitted to it, as a further expression of that policy of good neighborliness and collaboration.”
- Declaration of the Principles of the Solidarity of America, known as the “Declaration of Lima,” approved December 24, 1938, Report of the Delegation of the United States of America to the Eighth International Conference of American States, Lima, Peru, December 9–27, 1938 (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1941), p. 189.↩