Office of the Historian

I. United States policy toward the furnishing of arms to the other American Republics2

2. For War Department account of this 1940 phase of the policy, see Stetson Conn and Byron Fairchild, The Framework of Hemisphere Defense in the series United States Army in World War II: The Western Hemisphere (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1960), pp. 207–217. (Hereinafter cited as The Framework of Hemisphere Defense.)

[6] The Secretary of State to the Minister in Uruguay (Wilson)

Washington, June 1, 1940—4 p.m.

833.51/900: Telegram

[7] The Minister in Uruguay (Wilson) to the Secretary of State

Montevideo, June 3, 1940—11 a.m.
[Received 12:32 p.m.]

833.51/902: Telegram

[11] The Secretary of State to Diplomatic Officers in the American Republics

Washington, September 25, 1940.

810.20 Defense/39a Supplement

  1. This date appears to be the one on which the memorandum was drafted, and not the one on which it was signed.↩