Office of the Historian

740.35112RP/2–1446: Telegram

The Chargé in Argentina (Cabot) to the Secretary of State

confidential
Buenos Aires, February 14, 1946—6 p.m.
[Received February 14—5:43 p.m.]

484. Re Embassy’s telegram 426, February 8, 7 p.m.62 Appellate Court yesterday rejected Judge Ortiz Basualdo’s order restraining Junta de Vigilancia from taking possession of Staudt firms.63

Without deciding constitutional question, Court held order was unjustified judicial interference with the executive functions required to fulfill obligations under Chapultepec and United Nations pacts and that measures placing Staudt firms under Junta’s control were in compliance with international agreements which are incorporate in Argentine legislation.

It is believed certain that Staudt will petition for review by Supreme Court64 in which case Junta cannot proceed to take possession until Supreme Court either denies petition to review or affirms Appellate Court.

Cabot
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. German firms appearing on the Proclaimed List and object of court action in Chile as well as Argentina.↩
  3. For action of this court, see telegram 1858, July 18, from Buenos Aires, p. 280.↩