811.20 Defense (M) Brazil/5260a: Airgram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Brazil (Caffery)
Washington, September 20, 1943—5:40
p.m.
A–2273. Department’s A–2164, August 30. Following are the terms of reference agreed upon with the British covering rice negotiations by United States and British representatives.
- “1. To advise the Brazilian Government and to agree with it upon measures for the stimulation of production for the 1943–44 crop.
- 2. To negotiate with the Brazilian Government for the purchase of the entire exportable surplus of the 1943–44 crop over and above such shipments to other Latin American countries as may be mutually agreed, the price of such shipments to other Latin American countries not to exceed the price which the negotiators shall agree with the Brazilian Government for the balance of the exportable surplus.
- 3. (Subject to confirmation from London). To engage in similar negotiations, if they consider this to be desirable, in regard to the production and purchase of the exportable surplus of the 1944–45 rice crop.
- 4. To make recommendations to the Combined Food Board21 in regard to the machinery to be employed for implementing the above purchase.”
Hull
- Combined Food Board, United States and United Kingdom.↩