611.3231 Mixed Commission/6: Telegram
The Ambassador in Brazil (Caffery) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 20—6:10 p.m.]
192. Department’s 95, December 17, 3 p.m. The Foreign Office is in agreement as to the functions and size of the commissions and will be prepared to exchange the names of the members by January 15.
[Page 399]The Chief of the Commercial Section of the Foreign Office92 requests information regarding the method of appointment. He is under the impression that the following procedure was decided upon during the conversations in the Department with the Brazilian financial mission: The Brazilian Embassy at Washington would nominate Brazilian members of the Commission in New York but both the Brazilian and American members there would be appointed by the President of the United States; similarly the American Embassy in Rio de Janeiro would nominate the American members of the commission here but the President of Brazil would appoint both the Brazilian and the American members in Rio de Janeiro.
I agree as to the choice of C. Richard Varty as alternate member instead of Greenwood.
There is no family connection between the two Greenwoods mentioned.
I do not see possibility of any adverse reaction in Brazil to appointment of E. P. Thomas or Heman Greenwood.
- Júlio A. Barbosa Carneiro.↩