123: Telegram
The Ambassador in Argentina (Braden) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11:52 p.m.]
1806. Brazilian, Bolivian, Uruguayan, and Colombian Ambassadors and Dominican Minister belatedly called on me last night to express their solidarity following recent attacks on me. After thanking them I said that I knew where attacks originated (mentioning no names), that my report5 with full evidence was going forward yesterday (as it did), that attacks were unprecedented in diplomatic history, that my Govt. took very serious view of them and it had not yet decided what action it should take.
In strongest way possible I emphasized that no one could point to single word or act which could remotely be interpreted as intervention in Argentine internal affairs and I had never even invoked Argentine commitments re free press and democratic principles as I might have under Mexico City resolutions. I mentioned that Perón on June 30 threatened newspaper campaign against me and then [Page 402] described at some length Argentine failures to live up to commitments re liquidation of Axis interests and influence in Argentine.
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- Despatch 511, August 8, 1945, not printed.↩