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710.Consultation(2)/433: Telegram

The Ambassador in Brazil (Caffery) to the Acting Secretary of State73

Rio de Janeiro, July 24, 1940—3 p.m.
[Received 3:15 p.m.]

366. Nabuco74 reports there is talk in some quarters Habana that “autonomy should be conceded existing colonies in America”. Aranha [Page 242] says that he disagrees with this. He supports the Department’s position regarding the colonies.

Caffery
  1. This message was repeated to the American Delegate at Habana in Department’s telegram No. 26, July 25, 2 p.m.↩
  2. Mauricio Nabuco, personal representative of the Brazilian Minister for Foreign Affairs at the Second Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs.↩