832.6511/107: Telegram
The Ambassador in Brazil (Caffery) to the Secretary of State
Rio de
Janeiro, May 29, 1940—2
p.m.
[Received 2:08 p.m.]
[Received 2:08 p.m.]
234. For the Under Secretary. Last paragraph of your telegram 138, May 25, 4 [3] p.m. President Vargas is not yet in a position to give me the figures involved. He is awaiting a report of his commission which is going into the business in great detail. Rough estimates vary from 15 to 20 million dollars.
Caffery