832.24/8–2746: Telegram
The Ambassador in Argentina (Messersmith) to the Secretary of State
confidential
Buenos
Aires, August 27, 1946—7
p.m.
[Received 7:40 p.m.]
[Received 7:40 p.m.]
2080. Embtel 1959 August 3 and Deptel 1057 August 8.44 Embassy recommends pending Argentine request rubber tires be approved for immediate shipment without awaiting Brazilian concurrence. Should Brazil resent action reference may be made to Argentine urgent need for items and Brazilian Ambassador’s remarks here to press August 24 blaming inability of Brazil to supply Argentina with rubber on Brazilian-US agreement which called for all Brazilian surplus and placing US in bad light concerning matter.
Messersmith
- Neither printed.↩