832.24/703: Telegram
The Ambassador in Brazil (Caffery) to the Secretary of State
[Received February 19—3:55 a.m.]
479. For the Under Secretary. Aranha showed me this morning the confidential report to President Vargas of the Minister of War on the material promised in Department’s 276, February 5, 2 p.m. While showing more appreciation than Aranha showed (my telegram No. 371, February 7, 12 noon) still he made some of the same criticisms Aranha made; and remarked that “even the 25,000,000 had not yet been deposited”, et cetera.
I should appreciate any further information available in regard to the three requests made by General Amaro Bittencourt as additional “urgent requirements” of the Brazilian Government; also as to the present status of the material promised before the first of March; also as to the present status of spare parts mentioned in my 377, February 7, 6 p.m.34
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