It is a definite and tangible form of active assistance to the American Republics and very particularly to the United States. If Argentina had been bent on maintaining an absolute neutrality or. worse yet. if she were bent on aiding the Axis. as it is stated. this decree would be senseless and illogical. Not only did Argentina expel those citizens of the Axis who were deemed undesirable. but on January 28. 1944. she issued a decree forbidding the extension of visas to nationals of the Axis countries or of Axis origin. even if they ostensibly bore another nationality. This was devised to avoid the admission to Argentine territory of persons from the Axis countries or those who might. under guise of another nationality. serve Axis interests. An even more important form of aid to the United Nations was the supplying of foodstuffs and strategic materials to the United State6.