832.00 Revolutions/295: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul General at São Paulo (Cameron)
Your August 1, 4 p.m. Department does not desire you to receive the communication officially. For your confidential information Department feels that in present state of things between the parent State and the São Paulo insurgents it would not be justified in giving consideration to a request for recognition of belligerency. Neither the extent of the hostilities which have thus far taken place nor the effects of these hostilities on the rights and interests of the United States appear to require any definition of our relation to the two parties to the conflict. It is moreover of course evident that a declaration according belligerent rights under present conditions would be a gratuitous and unfriendly act to the Government of Brazil.
Repeat this telegram, as well as your cable of August 1, to the Embassy at Rio for its information.
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