Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson and President Harry S. Truman
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May 16,1949
Meeting with the President
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"MATIONAL
Subject: Concern of the President of Uruguay
over the Change of Ambassadors
: ARCHIVES SERVICEN AND
RECORDE
The President mentioned to me a conversation which Mr. David Morse
of the ILO had had with the President of Uruguay, and which Mr. Morse
had previously reported to me. The President thought that some message
of reassurance to the President of Uruguay would be desirable, a view
with which I concurred, and told the President I had already planned
to send such a message.
The conversation in question was this:
The President of Uruguay sent for Mr. Morse as he was about to leave
the country after attending some ILO meeting there. He said that he was
(very disturbed about the transfer of Mr. Ellis Briggs to Czechoslovakia
and did not know how to have his concern properly understood in Wash-
ington. To discuss it with Mr. Briggs would be an embarrassment to the
latter and to send a message through his Ambassador here might be
concern came from the fact that various people pur-
porting to report President Peron's views had stated to him that
President Peron had long wished to have Mr. Briggs removed from
Uruguay, and that this transfer was, so these people claimed and the
President of Uruguay suspected, a move on our part to appease Peron.
This alarmed him because he felt that the position of Uruguay might be
untenable If the United States intended to adopt such a policy.
I explained to Mr. Morse the reasons which motivated the transfer,
which he thoroughly understood and approved, having just been in Caecho-
slovakia himself. He and I both thought that a message to the President
explaining the reasons for the transfer would be reassuring to him.
I should appreciate having such a message prepared.
DA
DECLASSIFIED
E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (B)
Dept. of State letter,
7.23.25
SECRET
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By NLT- He NARS Date 4-22-76
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