File No. 832.85/58
The Ambassador in Brazil ( Morgan) to the Secretary of State
[Telegram]
Rio de Janeiro,
December 20, 1917, noon.
[Received December 21, 12.42 a.m.]
[Received December 21, 12.42 a.m.]
Referring to the Department’s telegram of December 18, 5 p.m. French Government secured the best of the ex-German vessels. The remainder the Brazilian Government is employing on the Lloyd-Brasileiro service between New York and South America. Do not consider them at present available for charter to the United States or that such operation would improve our political position, as the impression would be produced that we were taking what France had left.
Morgan