710.Consultation (3)/105: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Chile ( Bowers )2

633. The Department is advised that the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Argentina3 expects to have conferences with the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Chile,4 Paraguay,5 Bolivia,6 and possibly Peru7 on their way through Buenos Aires to the meeting of Foreign Ministers in Rio8 with a view to securing their support of the “Argentine position”.

Although the Department does not yet have any precise information as to the “Argentine position” recent indications of Argentine policy would appear to leave considerable room for its modification until it comes up to the level toward which the policy of the countries which have not yet declared war or broken off relations seems to be evolving.

Accordingly you are instructed to find some appropriate opening for suggesting to the Foreign Minister that since there are a number of projects, resolutions, and policies now under consideration by the Governments of the American Republics he may wish to defer taking any position with respect to them, at least in a definitive way, prior to the convening of the conference and until an opportunity has been afforded of learning fully there the views of all the other Governments.

Hull
  1. Repeated on the same date as telegram No. 553 to the Ambassador in Peru, No. 155 to the Minister in Paraguay, and No. 278 to the Chargé in Bolivia.
  2. Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú.
  3. Juan Rossetti.
  4. Luis A. Argaña.
  5. Eduardo Anze Matienzo.
  6. Alfredo Solf y Muro.
  7. For the membership of the American delegation to the Conference, see Department of State Bulletin, January 3, 1942, p. 12.