710.Consultation (3)A/316: Telegram
The Chargé in Uruguay (Dwyer) to the Secretary of State
[Received 5:55 p.m.]
553. For Duggan from Spaeth. Dr. Guani advised me this morning that President Amézaga approved the proposal for a report to [Page 25] the Governing Board of the Union which will recite the basic facts with respect to Argentina as developed during the past year and which would conclude with the assertion that the defense of the hemisphere will be seriously prejudiced so long as any American Republic maintains diplomatic relations with the Axis and that the work of the Committee for Political Defense cannot be effective so long as it includes a member who cannot subscribe to the policies approved at Rio. Although Dr. Bcanills [Guani is] thus authorized to support a strong affirmative statement with documentation he is not free to support an explicit recommendation that the membership be changed.
Guani recommends that the matter be submitted to the Chilean member on Monday, June 6, with the frank oral explanation that the documentation and assertions of the report will be the equivalent of a recommendation for a change of membership.
It is Guani’s present opinion in which I concur that it is desirable to proceed to negotiate the matter with Chile notwithstanding yesterday’s developments in Argentina.58 Guani feels that it will be some time before the international policy of the new regime is made clear and believes that if the developments of the next few weeks indicate a change by Argentina the report to the Union can be appropriately modified.
If the Department is of the opinion that the conversations with the Chilean member should be postponed in view of the developments in Argentina please advise me by return cable. [Spaeth.]