Office of the Historian

800.6363/1242: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Argentina (Armour)

Washington, July 24, 1943—7 p.m.

1103. Your 1622, July 20, 7 p.m.48 The Department assumes that the Embassy is preparing the information requested in the penultimate paragraph of the Department’s 988 of July 6, 7 p.m. and that no technical assistance from here is considered necessary. Please advise the Department when you estimate the data will be ready.

It is extremely important for the Department to know exactly how equipment to cover essential Argentine needs would be used and how long you believe this could maintain Argentine production at present levels. In this connection, the best figures available here indicate total Argentine production of crude in 1942 was approximately 3,770,000 cubic meters as compared with 3,500,000 cubic meters in 1941. Please include accurate consumption figures for 1941 and 1942 and consumption and production figures for available months of 1943 in your analysis so that proper comparison may be made with situation in other American republics.

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