800.85/761: Telegram
The Ambassador in Brazil (Caffery) to the Secretary of State
Rio de
Janeiro, September 22, 1942—4
p.m.
[Received 10:05 p.m.]
[Received 10:05 p.m.]
3754. My telegram No. 3737, September 21, 8 [9] p.m.26
- (1)
- Aranha is taking the proposed shipping agreement to President Vargas this afternoon.
- (2)
- He showed me a list which he is preparing of “benefits” Brazil has received from the United States which he will show to the President and Cabinet.
- (3)
- Aranha told me that he has notified the Argentine Government that Argentine merchant ships touching Brazilian ports must have no crew members of German or Italian nationality, nor even naturalized Germans and Italians on board.
- (4)
- Aranha told me that he has notified the French Embassy here that they can forward no more telegrams in cipher27 as the French authorities at Dakar have withdrawn the cipher privileges of the Brazilian Consuls at Dakar.
- (5)
- Aranha showed me a number of recent telegrams from Chile; he observed that his Ambassador there28 believes that the situation has improved but he believes that the Chileans “are fooling us”.
Caffery