Office of the Historian

832.00 Nazi/15: Telegram

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

Washington, March 1, 1938—3 p.m.

34. Department’s 32, February 28, 2 p.m. The Department is advised in a telegram received from the American Embassy in Berlin dated February 28 that a member of the Embassy staff was called to the Foreign Office yesterday at the request of Dr. Freytag, Chief of the American Section. The telegram continues as follows:

[Here follows text of telegram printed in volume II, page 461.]

The German Ambassador in Washington20 yesterday called upon the Secretary of State and communicated officially the substance of the information quoted above.

It would seem desirable for you to communicate the above confidentially to the Minister of Foreign Affairs with the request that he transmit this information to President Vargas in connection with the message sent President Vargas yesterday by the President.

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  1. Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff.↩