763.72119/3202: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Brazil ( Morgan )
Your December 16, 4 p.m. Inform Minister for Foreign Affairs that the Secretary of State sympathizes with his difficulties and that the American Commission will be most happy to lend their good offices at the appropriate moment with a view to arranging, if possible, for Brazil’s representation at the Peace Conference. It is the opinion of the Secretary that it would be advisable for Brazil to send one or more delegates without further delay to Paris.
[Page 231]While no assurances can be given as to who will be represented at the Peace Conference in advance of the preliminary meeting of the delegates of the great powers the American Commission will extend its good offices on behalf of those of its Latin-American neighbors which declared war on, or broke relations with, Germany.