Office of the Historian

852.48/233: Telegram

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

Rio de Janeiro, September 22, 1938—1 p.m.
[Received September 22—12:25 p.m.]

221. Department’s telegram No. 111, September 21, 6 p.m. The Minister for Foreign Affairs will recommend to President Vargas that coffee be donated to the Spanish refugees on condition that the difficulties which have recently arisen again in intensified form in conjunction with the refugees in the Brazilian Embassy at Madrid (my despatches 861, September 5 and 887, September 1348) be adjusted. The Brazilian Government desires to remove those refugees from territory dominated by the Barcelona Government.

Aranha added that the Franco government is “buying” coffee for the regions occupied by him.

Caffery
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