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AIR MAIL
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tion by the Senate as the question of Argentine prestige
was at stake. I said that the Argentine could not expect
to participate in the inter-American system if it did not
ratify the Acts of inter-American conferences. I said that
the Argentine could not hope to continue to be a member
of the United Nations Organization if it did not ratify
the Acts of San Francisco.
Senator Molinari then proceeded to give the impres-
sion that it was not he who was making these difficulties
but various Senators. He spoke of his difficulties as
leader of the Senate in getting the Senate to take action.
He spoke with a certain amount of pessimism of getting
ratification in the near future. He said that, of course,
the Acts of Mexico City and San Francisco would be rati-
fied in due course, but that he did not know when. He
said that he was trying to get a situation that ratifica-
tion would be unanimous.
I recalled to him that it was very difficult to get
unanimity in any legislative body and that if he was go-
ing to wait until there was unanimity it might create
for the Argentine, and undoubtedly would, very serious
inconveniences and great loss of prestige and some un-
happy situations. I laughingly remarked that several of
the Senators who had opposed the ratification of the Acts
of San Francisco in our Senate in recent state primaries
in the United States had lost their seats. I said that
perhaps certain Argentine Senators might bear this in
mind. I said that I could find no reluctance among the
public in the Argentine to ratification except among a
few extreme nationalists.
With respect to action cnncerning enemy property
and aliens, I said to Senator Molinari that I did not
see how the Senate could fail to give the most full approval
to the program which the President had indicated to me he
intended to carry through as such a program was necessary
for the implementation of the Acts of Mexico City and that
the Argentine could not expect to be a member of the family
of the United Nations and of the Inter-American system if
it showed this delicacy with regard to enemy property and
enemy aliens, or at least certain persons showed it to the
degree as to interfere with the program of the Government.
I will not go into further detail with regard to
the conversation. The President made it very clear that
he wished ratification to take place very rapidly. Sen-
ator Molinari said that he would do his best. The Foreign
Minister said very little during the conversation in view
of the fact that there has been a longstanding personal
and political difficulty between him and Senator Molinari
and Senator Molinari has been endeavoring to do what he
could to undermine the position of the Foreign Minister,
Dr. Ivanissevich did not join in the conversation, but
I was very happy that he was present throughout in view
of his departure for the United States today to assume
his mission.
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