Office of the Historian

721.23/1119: Telegram

The Minister in Colombia (Caffery) to the Secretary of State

Bogotá, February 12, 1933—9 p.m.
[Received February 13—9:15 a.m.]

35. Department’s 22, February 11, noon.19 Brazilian Minister here delivered note yesterday afternoon to Colombian Minister for Foreign Affairs explaining what Portuguese phrase “in compensation” means. Colombian Government repeats it cannot accept the wording “in compensation”.

Caffery
  1. Repeating telegram No. 21, February 11, 11 a.m., from the Ambassador in Brazil, p. 473.↩