832.6363/428: Telegram
The Ambassador in Brazil (Caffery) to the Secretary of State
Rio de
Janeiro, June 30, 1942—3
p.m.
[Received 4:12 p.m.]
[Received 4:12 p.m.]
2294. Aranha told me this morning that the President called him in yesterday on the gasoline situation: The President said Horta Barbosa had informed him that it would be necessary to lay up all private cars in Brazil at once; there is no diesel oil; fuel oil is practically exhausted, et cetera, et cetera.
Caffery