Office of the Historian

740.0011 Pacific War/3327

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

Buenos Aires, July 9, 1943—6 p.m.
[Received 6:24 p.m.]

1526. Minister for Foreign Affairs informed my Chilean colleague27 today that Japanese Ambassador28 called on him yesterday and was even more menacing than at the time he called to protest against Radio Communications decree. He cautioned the Minister against his Government breaking relations with Japan, saying that they would defeat the United States and would then retaliate against those countries which had taken an unfriendly position. The Minister told him that if Japan proceeded against any American country, Argentina would declare war.

Armour
  1. Conrado Rios Gallardo.↩
  2. Shu Tomii.↩