Office of the Historian

740.0011 Pacific War/946: Telegram

The Ambassador in Uruguay (Dawson) to the Secretary of State

Montevideo, December 10, 1941.
[Received December 10—10:30 a.m.]

530. Last evening Uruguayan Senate voted to send brief telegram informing United States Senate that invoking principles of international justice and humanity Uruguayan Senate condemns aggression of which United States has been the object.

Herrerista Senators were in majority and message as approved was that proposed by them after more strongly worded Colorado text had been defeated.

Dawson