Argentina last week played an ace. But perhaps not a trump.
At the diplomatically ungodly hour of 8 a.m. the unrecognized Argentine Minister in Washington, Rodolfo Garcia Arias, called at the Chilean Chancellory. The sleepy mayordomo let him in, telephoned Ambassador Marcial Mora at his home. The Ambassador was shaving, but he hurried downtown without breakfast, to receive with reluctant hands a diplomatic hot potato: a memorandum from the Argentine Government for delivery to the Government of the U.S. It announced that Argentina had asked the Pan American Union to call a full-dress conference of Foreign Ministers to consider the...
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