824.00/3128: Telegram
The Ambassador in Brazil (Caffery) to the Secretary of State
[Received 7:43 p.m.]
1809. For Duggan. My note of May 9 to you.80 I feel constrained to let you know that Aranha has not dropped his onslaught in regard to Warren’s trip to Bolivia. Every day, when he reads some of the wide-scale publicity accorded that visit, he explodes again. I had almost decided not to repeat to you what he was saying but, as he gets more angry and more violent every day in his allegations, I feel that I must let you know. He says the Department is “destroying” his prestige in South America by unilateral activities. “Why” he insists “should they send a man from Washington to investigate one of our neighboring countries and yet oppose our doing [Page 459] anything of the kind? They are playing into the Argentine’s hands et cetera”. He observed that I had asked him to keep the matter of removing Axis nationals from Bolivia secret and then points to articles about it in the local press under a La Paz date line.
He became more violent than ever this morning when he read an article, under a Washington date line, reporting that Bonsal is now in Chile and that “United States foreign policy with respect to Argentina and Bolivia will undoubtedly be cleared up by Mr. Philip Bonsal at Santiago et cetera et cetera”.
I believe that I need not make clear to you that I struggle hard with him and up to now I have succeeded in quieting Aranha down after every one of these daily explosions.
He inquired specifically this morning if I had been passing on his comments to you and he insistently asked me this morning to do so.
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