Office of the Historian

611.3331/354: Telegram

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

Washington, June 22, 1940—6 p.m.

65. Your 113, June 17, and 118, June 20, 4 p.m. You are referred to the statement made yesterday by the President23 (Radio Bulletin No. 148). The Department has given careful consideration of the situation described in your telegrams, and views the Uruguayan position as an integral part of the whole hemisphere picture. This Government is planning to send at once to Argentina an important official to discuss with the Argentine authorities the entire program announced by the President as well as Argentina’s particular financial and economic problems.24 Such official will visit Montevideo and you will be informed as soon as definite arrangements have been made.

Hull
  1. Department of State Bulletin, June 22, 1940, p. 675; for correspondence on inter-American economic cooperation, see pp. 353 ff.↩
  2. See pp. 460 ff.↩