611.3331/265: Telegram
The Chargé in Uruguay (Dwyre) to the Secretary of State
[Received 5:28 p.m.]
74. Referring to the Department’s telegram No. 52, September 11, 7 p.m. The Foreign Minister received me yesterday at which time the substance of the Department’s telegram was fully discussed. He informed me that earlier in the day he had had a conversation with the President of the Republic on the subject and that in the light of the information as presented in the Department’s telegram and as developed in our conversation he would immediately review all the details and be prepared to discuss the matter further with the President on Monday September 18 and that he would get in touch with me again on the 19th.
I took the occasion to show him the text of Ambassador Espil’s Washington statement, Mr. Welles’ statement of August 2311 and the Argentine Government’s communiqué, all as published in English in the Buenos Aires Herald (which he said he had not seen) and a full discussion thereof ensued after which he ordered an immediate translation stating that this information concerning the Argentine negotiations would be most helpful to him in the preparation of his reply to our Government’s memorandum of last June.
I left with him a memorandum embodying the Department’s telegram under acknowledgment and he stated that the details as now presented are clearly understood and remarked that “apparently the next step then is a public announcement of the intention to negotiate” in which I concurred pointing out however the necessity of an early written reply to the Department’s memorandum and the prior establishment of a satisfactory basis for public announcement.
- Department of State Bulletin, August 26, 1939, p. 166.↩