740.00111A.R./892: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Brazil ( Caffery )
4. From the Under Secretary. Your 6, January 3, 8 p.m.9 Please tell Aranha that we all deeply appreciate the information he has communicated through you regarding his views concerning the work to be undertaken by the Permanent Neutrality Committee. I do not see the evidence of any disagreement whatever between the views which he has expressed and the views held here. On the contrary, there would seem to be entire agreement between the viewpoint of the Brazilian Government as he has expressed it and the opinions held by this Government.
The only thing that I am not clear about is the opinion held by Aranha with regard to paragraph 3 of the Department’s telegram No. 251. In that connection, I have not seen the British note referred to in your telegram under acknowledgment. Please telegraph a summary thereof. Am I to understand that Aranha considers it advisable that no agreement should be sought on the part of the American Republics with regard to the problems outlined in paragraph 3 of the Department’s telegram No. 251 until after the Permanent Neutrality Committee has undertaken “studies in an effort to harmonize all the neutrality laws” of the American Republics as indicated in your telegram, and until he has had an opportunity of determining the temper and the disposition of the members of the Neutrality Committee? [Welles.]
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