835.00/1643: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Argentina (Armour)
1065. Your 1576, July 15, 10 p.m. The Department has noted with some concern the apparent desire of the Argentine Government to find some sort of a specific issue on which to break relations with the Axis. It seems to the Department that such a policy would not advance the attainment of the stated objective of the present Argentine regime to secure through acts, not words, the greatest possible solidarity with the other American republics and the fulfillment of Inter-American commitments and it hopes that the Argentine Government will see its way clear to basing a break in relations on these grounds as Storni has now indicated to you will be the case.
The linking of the Argentine policy of solidarity with the other American republics to the maintenance of neutrality vis-à-vis non-American countries in pronouncements of the Argentine authorities appears contradictory and the Department feels that the Argentine Government will sooner or later have to come to a clear definition of which policy is to govern. The action of the Argentine Government in closing pro-United Nations organizations on the plea that Communists have infiltrated into them, and particularly the dissolution of Acción Argentina, which has been so thoroughly identified with the United States and British cause, while it has taken no action against pro-Axis organizations with Argentine membership necessarily causes considerable misgiving here as to the true motives and intentions of the Argentine Government.
The Department is placing these considerations before you for your comment and unless you perceive serious objection to the contrary, for guidance in future conversations with Ramírez, Storni and others.