840.48/2753
The Ambassador in Brazil (Morgan) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 10.]
Sir: Referring to the subject of the Department’s circular telegraphic instruction of March 13th, 6 p.m.,31 relative to a suggestion that a meeting of the representatives of the Associated and Neutral Governments should be held in Paris for the purpose of formulating a possible program for the relief of the suffering populations of various countries of Central Europe, I have the honor to report that this matter was covered by a note of this Embassy, then under the charge of Mr. Craig W. Wadsworth, to the Brazilian Foreign Office on March 16th, 1920. I have further the honor to report that on the 31st of March, last, this Embassy received a reply which stated that in principle the Government of Brazil was in full accord with the views of the American Government relative to that matter, and adding that in order that the former Government might definitely [Page 283] understand the suggestions of our Government it desired to be informed of the method in which it was proposed to furnish aid to the above-mentioned populations as well as the character of the participation which it was hoped that Brazil would supply.
Finally I have the honor to report that the contents of the Department’s urgent telegraphic circular of March 27th, 6 p.m.,32 concerning relief, was transmitted to the Brazilian Government by Mr. Wadsworth in a note on April 5th, and that the matter rests there at present.
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