File No. 812.00/13921.
The Brazilian Minister to
Mexico to the Secretary of State.
No. 82.]
Brazilian Legation,
Mexico,
November 16, 1914.
Sir: Referring to the evacuation of Vera Cruz,
I have the honor to enclose herewith translations of two notes which I
have received on this subject in answer to my note of November 14.70
I have [etc.]
J. M. Cardoso de
Oliveira
.
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[Inclosure 1—Translation.]
Sr. Davalos,
temporarily in charge of the Foreign Office, to the Brazilian Minister.
Foreign Office,
Mexico,
November 14, 1914.
Mr. Minister: I had the honor to receive
your note of even date in which you have transcribed a message from
the Secretary of State of the United States of America stating the
resolution of the American Government to withdraw the troops now
stationed at the port of Vera Cruz, said Government having
considered as satisfactory the guaranties which the First Chief of
the Constitutionalist Army as well as the Military Convention at
Aguascalientes have offered.
It is with pleasure that I inform your excellency that I shall
immediately bring the above to the knowledge of the First Chief, Mr.
Carranza, and no doubt such tidings will be received by him with
great pleasure. It gives me real satisfaction to see the able manner
in which you have conducted the negotiations started by this
Chancellery before the Government of the United States, which have
now come to such a successful end.
I avail [etc.]
[Inclosure 2–—Translation.]
The Acting Secretary for
Foreign Affairs to the Brazilian
Minister.
Córdoba,
November 15, 1914.
Mr. Minister: It was an honor and a
satisfaction for me to receive your kind note under yesterday’s date
in which your excellency requests me to convey to the First Chief of
the Constitutionalist Army in charge of the Executive of this
country, that the Secretary of State of the United States of America
informs this Government that the port of Vera Cruz will be evacuated
by the American forces on the 23d instant. In advising your
excellency that Mr. V. Carranza, in charge of the Executive, was
duly informed, I have the honor to reiterate to you what I have said
in previous notes, that is: that General Candido Aguilar, Governor
and Military Commander of the Port of Vera Cruz, has been duly
authorized by the Executive to receive the port, and that he has
already issued the necessary instructions to that effect. The First
Chief, Mr. Carranza, asks me to present to your excellency his
sincere appreciation of the friendly participation which you have
had in this affair, which is of such interest to the Government and
people of Mexico. Please accept my congratulations for the part
which you have represented in the solution of this international
case.
Sincerely thanking you [etc.]
