Foreign News: Copy to Cordell Hull

The stubbornly totalitarian, angrily neutral Argentine Government of President Pedro Ramirez again took a stiff rebuke from another great nation which has been Argentina’s good friend. From Britain, along with a new purchasing agreement, came a sharp qualification:

“The [trade] agreements . . . should not be taken as having any political significance. . . . His Majesty’s Government . . . remain disappointed at the determination of successive Argentine Governments to maintain neutrality. . . . Axis nationals are still free to conspire on Argentine soil against the interests and security of the United Nations.

“His Majesty’s Government . . . hope that . . . the Argentine Government will at an early date range itself wholeheartedly on the side of freedom-loving nations.”