711.35/8–2045: Telegram
The Ambassador in Argentina (Braden) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 21—2:31 a.m.]
1906. Following communiqué issued at 11:15 p.m. by Presidential Secretariat through intermediary of Press and Information Secretariat:
“The Government, having been informed that it is planned to simulate an attempt against the life of the diplomatic representative of a friendly nation with the purpose of artificially creating political (international) difficulties, the Secretariat, in the name of the President of the Republic, makes known this disreputable maneuver to the public opinion of the country and warns those who have conceived this criminal intention and who intend to put it into effect that its authors, instigators, accomplices, and concealers (encubridores) will be punished as traitors with all the strength of the law.”