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President Roosevelt to the Under Secretary of State (Welles), Temporarily at Rio de Janeiro10
Welles: Your 21:11 Tell President Vargas I wholly understand and appreciate the needs and can assure him flow of material will start at once. He will understand when I say there are shortages in a few items which I do not trust to putting on the wire but which are soon to come into production. I want to get away as soon as possible from token shipments and increase them to a minimum of Brazilian requirements very quickly.
Tell him I am made very happy by his splendid policy and give him my very warm regards.
I will send list of immediate shipments in separate code message.
- This communication written in the President’s own hand appears to have been transmitted to the Adviser on Political Relations (Duggan), who made the following notation: “Unable to reach Mr. Welles or anyone on his immediate staff, I telephoned the President’s message to Mr. Caffery [Ambassador in Brazil]. Mr. Caffery stated that he was going to join the President [of Brazil] and Mr. Welles in a few minutes and would therefore have an opportunity to give the message to Mr. Welles.”↩
- Dated January 18, 6 p.m., p. 633.↩