832.51/1751: Telegram
The Ambassador in Brazil (Caffery) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 8—1:40 a.m.]
95. Resumption of services on the Brazilian foreign debt on the plan specified in the Department’s telegrams 51, March 4, 9 p.m. and 56, March 6, 7 p.m. is provided for in a decree-law in the following text which the Minister of Finance says will be signed by the President tonight. This is to be held confidential until released for publication here probably tomorrow.
[Here follows the text of Decree-Law 2,085 approved March 8, 1940. See Brazil, Diario Oficial, March 9, 1940, page 4150.]
Before receiving the Department’s 57, March 7, 1 p.m., I had already persuaded Aranha to drop the idea of raising Grade IV above the foregoing figures.