Office of the Historian

810.51A/5: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Brazil (Morgan)32

Washington, May 24, 1919, 6 p.m.

On recommendation Secretary Treasury, President has designated Monday, January 12, 1920 for convening of second Pan American Financial Conference, authorized in diplomatic and consular Act, March 3rd, 1917,33 and hopes this date will be agreeable to Government of Brazil. Act limits official delegation to three members. Please convey to government to which you are accredited formal invitation to participate.

Confidential for your guidance. Most important factor in Financial Conference is conference between Secretary of Treasury and respective Ministers of Finance. Secretary of Treasury, therefore, most anxious that Minister of Finance head delegation and that delegation include persons prominent in banking and commerce. Department believes that it would be desirable for you to convey the Secretary of Treasury’s hopes regarding the personnel of the delegations orally and unofficially at the same time that you transmit the formal and written invitation for participation in the Conference. Cable reply.34

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  1. The same, mutatis mutandis, May 24, to the diplomatic representatives in all other Latin American countries.↩
  2. 39 Stat. 1052.↩
  3. Acceptances received from all governments addressed; not printed.↩