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    "ocrText": "VIA ATR MAIL COURIER\nDECLASSIFIED\nE. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (E)\nDept. of State letter, Aug. 9, 1973,\nBy\nNLT- HC ; NARS Date 4-16-75\nOUCKET\nBuenos Aires, Argentina.\nOctober 15, 1946.\nDear Mr. Secretary:\nI am sorry that I have to take up more of your\ntime and refer further to my secret letter of October\n12, 1946. I sent an envelope containing a copy of that\nletter addressed to you to the Department and another\nenvelope addressed to you in Paris, to Assistant Secre-\ntary Donald Russell, asking him to be sure that this\nletter reached you at the earliest possible moment and\nthat if the copy addressed to you in Paris would reach\nyou before you left there, to send it to you there.\nYou will recall that in my letter of October 12 I\nsaid that I had regretfully come to the conclusion that\nSpruille Braden's attitude in this Argentine and American\npicture was not helpful and constructive, and in Para-\ngraph 4 on Page 4 I brought to your attention a memo-\nrandum which he had prepared for the President on the\nArgentine situation and which was utterly inadequate.\nI brought to your attention that I had, in my despatch\nNo. 583, of August 15, 1946, made observations on this\nmemorandum and called specific attention to the fact\nthat the President, in returning it to Mr. Acheson, had\nnot specifically approved the memorandum as a whole but\nhad merely stated that we must stand by your statement\nof April 8, 1946, which we have been consistently doing.\nYou will appreciate that I cannot carry on my task\nhere if the Department is going to send such memoranda\non the Argentine situation to the field. It gives an\nentirely improper and inadequate picture to our other\nChiefs of Mission. It is completely unconstruotive.\nThere was no purpose whatever in Spruille Braden sending\nthis memorandum out at this time. It serves no useful\npurpose, especially in view of its inadequacies; I will\nnot speak of its inaccuracies. It is, in my opinion,\na part of a set-up which Spruille Braden is making to\ndefend an impossible position which he has assumed and\nI think we must frankly recognize it as such.\nTHEMAN\nI have\nThe Honorable\nJames F. Byrnes,\nARCHIVES \"NATIONAL RECORDS SERVICE\" AND\nSecretary of State,\n6\nWashington, D. C."
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