File No. 835.73/48
The Chargé in Brazil ( Benson) to the Secretary of State
Sir: With reference to the Department’s telegraphic instruction of March 22, 4 p.m., I have the honor to report that on March 23 this Embassy sent a note to the Foreign Office in which (referring to the decision published in the Official Gazette of February 18) it was stated that the Government of the United States would be glad if the Brazilian Government would find a method of modifying the above decision which amounts practically to a discrimination against the telegrams exchanged between the United States and Brazil.
This Embassy has to-day received a note from the Minister for Foreign Affairs, dated April 9, 1917, saying that the Embassy’s communication of March 23 has been submitted to the consideration of the Minister of Public Works, whose reply will be transmitted to this Embassy when received by the Foreign Office.
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