832.20/398: Telegram
The Ambassador in Brazil (Caffery) to the Secretary of State
[Received 6:32 p.m.]
1669. For the Under Secretary. Referring again to Department’s 1195, May 11, 8 p.m., the Cabinet are in agreement that the Air Ministry must seriously endeavor to rectify the situation at Fortaleza described by Colonel Hall.
Salgado has invited my attention to letters he received from Colonel Hall which present a very different picture. (I of course understand that Hall did not feel in position to put the facts before the Air Minister.)
[Page 662]Aranha told me this morning that Salgado is ordering 60 additional pilots to proceed to Fortaleza.
[A political-military agreement between the United States and Brazil entered into by an exchange of notes dated May 23 and May 27, 1942, at Rio de Janeiro, not printed, provided among other provisions, for the establishment of two Brazilian-American Technical-Military Mixed Commissions, one in Brazil and the other in the United States. For information on the negotiation of the agreement and the establishment of the two Commissions, see Stetson Conn and Byron Fairchild, The Framework of Hemisphere Defense, in the series United States Army in World War II: The Western Hemisphere (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1960), pp. 317–319.]