711.3212Anti-War/12
The Ambassador in Brazil (Morgan) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 12.]
Sir: I have the honor to report that the Department’s telegram of August 27, 1 P.M.28 was not delivered by the telegraph company at this office until after 7 o’clock on the evening of that day, and that since the Foreign Office was closed for business before that hour it was impossible to hand to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Octavio Mangabeira, until half past eleven on the morning of August 28, the copy of the note the text of which was contained in the [Page 162] Department’s circular telegram of August 16, 12 M. N., accompanied by a copy of the pamphlet entitled “Notes Exchanged between the United States and other Powers on the subject of a Multilateral Treaty for the Renunciation of War. June 20, 1927–July 20, 1928”. This I did in person.
Late yesterday afternoon Dr. Mangabeira’s reply was delivered at this office, a copy of the text of which in Portuguese, accompanied by an English translation, I have the honor to enclose. This reply forms the subject of my telegram to the Department No. 33, of August 29, 3 P.M.29
The text of the Multilateral Anti-War Treaty was published by the local press in Portuguese on Sunday, August 26, and the text of my note to the Foreign Office, together with the text of Minister Mangabeira’s reply, which latter document was supplied by the Foreign Office, were published in Portuguese in the local press this morning. The text of the treaty which was published on August 26, I am informed by the local representative of the United Press, was supplied from Buenos Aires.
The Portuguese text, with English translation, of four short articles which have appeared within the last few days in the local press expressing Brazilian opinion regarding the treaty are herewith enclosed.29
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