File No. 862.20235/208
The Ambassador in Argentina ( Stimson ) to the Secretary of State
[Received 3.50 p.m.]
The Luxburg telegrams, 57 in number,2 were given to the evening papers yesterday with a statement from the Foreign Office that they [Page 393] Were All that had been received from Washington, except the three referred to in my December 15, 6 p.m.1 The communiqué goes on to say that the telegrams make a series of misstatements too astounding to be qualified, as they are entirely contrary to the terms in which the negotiations were maintained and decided. “Equally absurd are the suppositions which attribute to the Argentine Government attitudes with respect to other nations—the Argentine Government therefore disavows totally the contents of these telegrams in all that relates to their opinion and proceedings.”
None of the leading newspapers make editorial comment as yet except La Nación, which asks where the rest of the 400 telegrams are that the Argentine Government said it possessed.
The telegrams were not referred to in the debate in Congress last night. The general opinion is that the most important telegrams were the four [three?] already published.
- In addition to the three originally published by the American Government; these had been sent by the Argentine Government to Washington for decoding and were also published there. See the Ambassador’s telegram of Sept. 21, 11 a.m., and the Acting Secretary’s telegram of Oct. 27, 7 p.m., ante, pp. 329, 353.↩
- Not printed.↩