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The Ambassador in El Salvador (Simmons) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 1.]
Sir: I have the honor to advise the Department that Dr. Arrieta Rossi, Foreign Minister, told me in conversations of yesterday and of the previous day that the attitude of the Foreign Office toward attendance of Salvadoran delegates at the present Mexico City Conference of Foreign Ministers is one of indifference, and that he sees no reason to take any step which would facilitate such attendance.
He commented in this connection that he did not feel it compatible with the dignity of the Salvadoran Government for it to receive a special type of invitation differing from that received by the other Latin American governments. He said that he was, of course, speaking [Page 43] for the Aguirre Government, and that naturally the situation would be changed as of March 1, when General Castañeda Castro will assume the Presidency of El Salvador.
Similar sentiments were expressed to me informally yesterday by Dr. Ulloa Morazán, the Under Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and there is enclosed herewith, as of interest in this connection, a translation88 of a press interview with him, published in yesterday’s edition of La Prensa Gráfica, in regard to this question.
Respectfully yours,
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