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710.Consultation (3)A/452: Telegram

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

Buenos Aires, December 20, 1943—3 p.m.
[Received December 20—2:54 p.m.]

2921. Espil71 tells me when news of the resolution referred to [in] Department’s 1895, December 14, 9 p.m.72 reached Foreign Office here they were very angry, in fact were inclined not to appoint successor to Achaval, recently designated Minister to Switzerland. Espil who was apparently consulted recommended against such a stand, on ground that Pan American Union, to which resolution has been referred, would then be in a position to designate a delegate from some other country leaving Argentine unrepresented. This, he told them, would, he felt, be a serious mistake. While Espil personally understands reasons prompting Committee in its action, he doubts whether Pan American Union has power to act in sense recommended. Espil does not know [Page 34] whether his Government will act on his recommendation, but he is working quietly to have Ricardo Bunge73 designated as Achaval’s successor.

Repeated to Montevideo.

Armour
  1. Felipe A. Espil, Argentine Ambassador to the United States.↩
  2. Not printed; for substance, see telegram No. 1017, December 3, 4 p.m., from the Ambassador in Uruguay, supra.↩
  3. Director of the Division of American Political Affairs of the Argentine Foreign Office.↩