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File No. 763.72/5610

The Ambassador in Brazil ( Morgan) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
Rio de Janeiro, June 29, 1917, 11 a.m.
[Received 3 p.m.]

Executive decree issued to-day,1 at once effective, withdraws neutrality decrees affecting France, Russia, Great Britain, Japan, Portugal, and Italy. The warships of those powers, therefore, will have the same privileges in Brazilian ports which our vessels have enjoyed since June 2.

Morgan
  1. The decree was signed June 28 (File Nos. 763.72/5811, 5996).↩