862.20210/2177: Telegram

The Ambassador in Uruguay (Dawson) to the Secretary of State

101. I transmitted the memorandum to the Acting Chairman this morning with a note which stated in translation as follows:

“In compliance with instructions from my Government I have the honor to transmit to Your Excellency, in your capacity as Acting Chairman of the Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense, a memorandum dated January 4, 1943 entitled ‘Axis Espionage Activities in Argentina’21 the said memorandum is presented for the consideration of the Committee because the information contained therein affects the defense of the entire hemisphere and therefore the security of each one of the American Republics.

An examination of the memorandum by the Committee for Political Defense will reveal that the information contained therein relates directly to the problems referred to the Committee by Resolution XVII of the Third Consultative Meeting of Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the American Republics22 and therefore to the resolutions that the Committee has submitted to the Governments of the American Republics.”

Notices were sent this afternoon to the members of the Committee calling the meeting for 12:30 p.m. (11 a.m. Washington time) tomorrow.

Dawson
  1. For text, see Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense, Annual Report, July 1943 (Montevideo, 1943), p. 107.
  2. Held at Rio de Janeiro January 15–28, 1942. Resolution XVII dealt with subversive actions of enemy agents or their friends; for text, see Department of State Bulletin, February 7, 1942, p. 128.