Office of the Historian

710 Consultation 3(A)/739: Telegram

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

Montevideo, May 31, 1944—8 p.m.
[Received 9:30 p.m.]

496. For Knapp from Sanders. At meeting this morning with all members present except the Chilean who is seriously ill, Committee unanimously approved resolution transmitted in Department’s cable No. 304 of May 27.43

[Here follows a short account of minor changes made in the draft.]

Mexican member at first proposed but later withdrew motion that final vote be postponed in order to consider possibility of broadening formula to include individuals who do not presently possess documents mentioned therein. Initial doubts expressed by some members regarding responsibility of governments for persons released were set at rest by my oral explanation based on last cable under reference.44

Committee also approved Argentine memorandum in form sent Department May 26.45 Chiappe46 abstained from voting on ground that memorandum contains recommendations to his own Government. He read a short statement in which he referred to recognition given in memorandum to Argentina’s efforts to combat espionage and other activities contrary to its security and that of the other Republics and added that some of suggestions have already been placed in effect since consultative visit. He also stated that “My Government will study the recommendations contained in the report with the best of good will and, within the pertinent constitutional and legal limitations, will seek to give the greatest effectiveness to measures designed to safeguard its own security and that of other American Republics”.

In all Committee matters Chiappe has recently been striving to create impression of Argentina’s complete cooperation with Committee as well as with other Republics. [Sanders.]

Dawson
  1. Not printed; this cable contained a draft resolution to encourage facilities for aiding refugees from German persecution (710 Consultation 3(A)/741a). For correspondence on governmental assistance to persons forced to emigrate for political or racial reasons, see vol. i, pp. 981 ff.↩
  2. Telegram 307, May 30, 1944, to Montevideo, not printed.↩
  3. Not found in Department files.↩
  4. Miguel A. Chiappe, of Argentina.↩