He responded almost verbatim (racism included) to how the Peronist government responded back then to the Brazilian diplomatic enquiries about the armament purchases by Argentina.
Would/should the Brazilian government have bought that explanation? Of course not. Just to put the scale of the thing in perspective, in 1947 Peron acquired 100 Gloster Meteors from the UK, the top of the line British jet fighter at the time. During that same period, all air forces in South America, put together, did not field 100 propeller combat aircraft. He then bought 50 long range strategic bombers, another type of aircraft that simply did not exist in the region until then. Then he bough an aircraft carrier, something that would allow him to project force anywhere in South America.
But of course, there was no intention to go to war. Why conquer a bunch of niggers and indians? It is not like someone had ever tried conquering them before, right? Right?