Office of the Historian

835.24/794: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Argentina (Armour)

Washington, October 19, 1942—10 p.m.

1575. Your 1991 of October 14, 4 p.m.93 The Department will take no action until it receives the report you mention. It is constrained, however, to point out that the issuance of all these certificates of necessity is largely useless. As you are well aware, our program of actual exports and shipping to Argentina for the fourth quarter for successive periods is very reduced, and material covered by the certificates will under no circumstances all be made available.

Rather than permit this type of situation to continue, with the Central Bank doing much unnecessary work, you are requested, unless you perceive strong objection, fully to inform the Argentine Government and the Central Bank of the program for exports which is set forth in the memorandum of September 23,94 of which you have a copy. (i.e. paragraphs 2. a and b.)

Hull
  1. Not printed; it requested that the Department delay action until the Embassy had reviewed the Central Bank’s Certificates of Necessity (835.24/794).↩
  2. Not printed.↩