Letter from Ambassador George Messersmith to President Harry S. Truman, with Attachment
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OCR Page 1 of 12THE FOREIGN SERVICE
OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
AMERICAN EMBASSY
Buenos Aires, Argentina,
October 23, 1946
My dear Mr. President:
I appreciate very much your taking the trouble
to write me under date of September 6 that you have
read with interest my letter of August 16 and a copy
of my letter to Secretary Byrnes. You state that you
have also received a copy of Dean Acheson's letter to
me of August 29, which leads you to believe that the
situation is not as serious as I seem to think--at
least you hope it is not.
I naturally appreciated Dean's letter of August
29 to which you refer and which was in reply to a letter
from me to him dated August 16. I did not reply to
Dean's letter for several weeks as I understood he was
taking a rest, which I am sure he very much needed. I
wrote him, however, under date of October 16 replying
to his letter of August 29. You will note from my let-
ter to Dean of October 16, of which I enclose a copy,
that unfortunately I consider the situation more serious
if anything than I had expressed in my letter of August
16 to him.
I would appreciate very much if you would read
the appended letter of October 16 to Dean or have some-
one give you the substance thereof, as it is necessary
to an understanding of the situation.
I am naturally becoming deeply distressed to have to
write in this way about an officer of the Department and
about someone
3. NATIONAL
The President,
The White House,
Washington.
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