810.34 Leasing/51: Telegram

The Ambassador in Brazil (Caffery) to the Secretary of State

103. The Minister for Foreign Affairs informed me today that President Vargas yesterday sent his chief military aide to see the [Page 161] Argentine Ambassador with the request that he invite President Justo’s attention to the fact that only 2 days before the Argentine Ambassador in Washington took up the destroyer question at the Department of State Saavedra Lamas had informed the Brazilian Ambassador in Buenos Aires that the Government of Argentina had no objection to the rental of the destroyers by Brazil.

Caffery