835.00/1492: Telegram

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

1255. Note dated today just received from Foreign Office reads in translation as follows:

“I have the honor to address Your Excellency bringing to your notice that as a consequence of the events which are of public knowledge Major General Pedro P. Ramírez has assumed the Provisional Presidency of the nation, designating Rear Admiral Saba H. Sueyro to discharge the Vice Presidency and Messrs. (Here follows the list of the new Cabinet.) Permit me on this occasion to express to Your Excellency the friendly intentions which animate the new Government for the continuance of the good and traditional relations which it maintains with the country which Your Excellency so worthily represents among us. Therefore I present to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest and most distinguished consideration.” Signed Segundo R. Storni, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Worship.

Armour