832.00 Nazi/15: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Brazil (Caffery)
32. From the Under Secretary.19 Your 42, February 27, 8 p.m. I have immediately communicated to the President the message sent him by President Vargas and quoted in your telegram under reference. The President requests me to ask you to let President Vargas know at once of his deep appreciation of the confidence shown in him by President Vargas in communicating to him this message. The President would like President Vargas to know that this Government is confronted by very much the same type of problem, although no incidents have as yet occurred of so acute a nature as that which has now taken place in Brazil. The President further desires President Vargas to know that he would welcome any further information of a similar character which President Vargas may wish to communicate to him and that this Government will in turn keep the Brazilian Government informed of any similar developments which may arise here.
The President expressed particular gratification at the news communicated in the last paragraph of your telegram under reference. Please advise Aranha to this effect and please in my own name express to Aranha and to Pimentel Brandão my own happiness upon learning of the appointments determined upon by President Vargas.
- Summer Welles.↩