835.00/1492: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Argentina (Armour)
851. Your telegram no. 1255 of June 8. On the understanding that the diplomatic representatives of the other American republics do likewise, you are authorized on or after noon Friday, June 11, to deliver a note to the new Argentine Government acknowledging its communication of June 8, taking note of the friendly intentions which animate that Government and stating this Government’s desire to maintain cordial relations with the new Government.
At the meeting with the chiefs of mission of the other American republics to decide upon final action regarding recognition, and at your first interview with the Foreign Minister, please make an oral statement along the following lines:
The Government of the United States has been glad to join with the other American governments in entering upon official relations with the new Government of Argentina. It has read with satisfaction the public declarations of the new Argentine Government affirming a policy of friendship and loyal cooperation with the nations of America in accordance with the agreements in force, and that this policy will be implemented by acts. This assurance is especially welcome in view of the fact that these agreements were designed to protect the safety of all American nations which now is gravely threatened by the lawless aggressors. In the light of these important declarations of basic policy, this Government in entering into relations with the new Argentine Government has the hope and belief that Argentina will collaborate in the same spirit and measure as the other American republics for the fulfillment of inter-American solidarity in all its aspects and for the attainment of those general conditions of world order to which all free peoples aspire.