810.20 Defense/58⅜: Telegram
The Ambassador in Brazil ( Caffery ) to the Secretary of State
Rio
de Janeiro
, June 10, 1940—3 p.m.
[Received 3:11 p.m.]
[Received 3:11 p.m.]
259. The German and Russian and notably the Russian broadcasts are talking a lot about our alleged imperialistic designs in Latin [Page 47] America under cover of acquiring air bases; and the Germans are stressing the trips of Colonel Miller and Captain Spears.
The local Germans are attempting to tie up the approaching visits of the Quincy and Wichita with all that.61
Caffery