832.24/293: Telegram
The Chargé in Brazil (Burdett) to the Secretary of State
[Received 3:24 p.m.]
665. For the Under Secretary. Reference Embassy’s telegram no. 661, December 13, 3 p.m. The Minister for Foreign Affairs received the following telegram this morning from his Ambassador in London.
“The British Government duly appreciates the ample desistance referred to in your telegram but the final decision depends on the formal reply regarding ‘ship’s warrant’ and immobilization of ships, which Your Excellency is believed to have promised to the British Ambassador after you have reached an understanding with the United States.
As the explanations in Reference are judged indispensable for the conclusion of an agreement satisfactory to both parties and in order to avoid creating precedents which might be invoked by other countries, I believe that as soon as they are forthcoming to the British Ambassador the subject will be immediately settled.”