Memorandum from Dean Acheson to President Harry S. Truman, with Attachment
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OCR Page 1 of 4DEPARTMENT OF STATE
the
WASHINGTON
April 11, 1947
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
Subject: Air Transport Agreement with the
Argentine
Ambassador Messersmith has just cabled that he has
had unexpected success through direct action by
President Peron in setting the stage for an Air Trans-
port Agreement on the principles established and
maintained by the United States since Bermuda. This
apparently amounts to a reversal of the previous
Argentine policy which prevented conclusion of an
agreement with an Argentine delegation sent to
Washington last fall. President Peron is anxious that
agreement be reached before the Montreal Assembly of
the International Civil Aviation Organization
beginning early in May. Ambassador Messersmith urges
that Mr. Landis be sent as head of the delegation.
I not only strongly concur with the Ambassador's
request for the services of Mr. Landis but feel that
he should go as your Personal Representative and with
the personal rank of Minister. The consummation of
such an Air Transport Agreement with the Argentines
would break the present log jam in Latin America as
the Bermuda Agreement did in Europe and the Near East.
I believe that following the signing of such an
agreement, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela and
Mexico would almost certainly fall in line. Mr. Landis
services would not be required except at Buenos Aires.
It might then be possible to sign a number of these
countries before the Montreal Assembly, in which
July
event
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