721.23/1043: Telegram
The Ambassador in Brazil (Morgan) to the Secretary of State
[Received February 7—4 p.m.]
14. After a conference between the Chief of the Provisional Government, the Foreign Minister and myself, which has just terminated, [Page 464] Brazil will accept the latest Peruvian proposition that Peru as the party in possession and Colombia as the sovereign power shall jointly cede Leticia territory temporarily to Brazil which will hold it during conferences in Rio de Janeiro. When the Foreign Minister proposed this today to the Colombian Minister the latter did not regard it favorably but the Colombian Government has not yet been heard from. It would be understood that the period during which Brazil would hold the territory would be approximately 60 days.
Brazil desires the American Government to continue to advise Colombia to accept these modifications of the plan previously presented.