Messersmith, G.S., Mexico City. To Joseph F. McGurk, Washington.
Date
1944-08-24
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University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press
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Enclosure: See No. 1634. [Miguel] Henriquez Guzmán planning trip to Chile; Henriquez Guzmán personally friendly to U.S., and is well meaning, but not of particular intelligence or broad background; he is being pushed as candidate for Presidency by former Cárdenas supporters who are definitely unfriendly to U.S. and more inclined to Latin American cooperation than to cooperation with U.S.; trip to Chile undoubtedly engineered by [Oscar] Schnake, former Chilean Ambassador to Mexico, who left Mexico with a bad name; Henriquez Guzmán also associated with such radicals as [Vicente] Lombardo Toledano and with Russian Ambassador, [Constantine A.] Oumansky; well informed Mexicans believe trip engineered for two reasons, (1) to push Henriquez Guzmán into limelight as presidential candidate and (2) to give him opportunity to spread distrust of U.S. in Chile and other countries he will visit on the way; Oumansky would like to make trouble by getting Latin American countries into bloc against U.S.; whether Henriquez Guzmán will lend himself to these schemes is not certain, but presidential ambition may make him subordinate his views to those of his friends; suggests Chiefs of U.S. Missions in Chile and other countries on West coast of South America be alerted and instructed to inform themselves as discreetly as possible as to Henriquez Guzmán's activities; they should then report to Department.
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Messersmith, George S. (George Strausser), 1883-1960.