835.01/7–2844: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 28—4:04 p.m.]
6025. Personal for the Secretary. Today I talked with Eden about the Argentine situation. He first wanted to assure me that Kelly’s stay would be prolonged here. Either he or the Prime Minister may make some statement in the debate in the Commons next week supporting our position but it will be less severe than your statement.60 He complained about our presenting his Government for the second time with a fait accompli on the ground that on this occasion we had failed to collaborate with them on the text of the public statement to be made. He told me he thought we should now give time to the Argentine to reconstitute its policy and that he hoped very much that before we took further action he might be allowed a fortnight’s interval to work out himself a program in relation to the Argentine that might both protect his own Government while supporting our Government.
- On July 26, the Department released to the press a statement on the non-recognition of the Argentine regime. For text, see Department of State Bulletin, July 30, 1944, p. 107.↩