832.24/703: Telegram

The Ambassador in Brazil (Caffery) to the Secretary of State

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

Caffery
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