810.20 Defense/12–1046
Memorandum of Conversation, by the Chief of the Division of Brazilian Affairs (Braddock)
| Participants: | General Salvador Cesar Obino, Joint Chief of Staff of the Brazilian Army, Navy and Air Force |
| Mr. Acheson | |
| Colonel Paul L. Freeman, Joint Brazil–United States Military Commission, Rio de Janeiro | |
| Mr. Braddock |
General Obino said that Brazil wished to obtain more arms from the United States and expressed the strong hope that the Truman arms bill62 would be passed by the next Congress and used promptly for the supply of arms to Brazil. He hoped that the supply would not be immediately generalized to the other American Republics, and expressed apprehension especially regarding Argentina, which he felt was not yet to be fully trusted. While favoring continental unity, the General said, Brazil felt that true unity could not be achieved at this time, and that the inter-American defense conference should therefore not be held until the situation clarified, which the General thought most improbable before the middle of 1947 at the earliest. He made it plain that Brazil would like to build up its arms position before the defense conference were held. The General intimated that Brazil would not be agreeable to arms inspections by officials of the United Nations.
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- Inter-American Military Cooperation Act, H.R. 6326, 79th Cong., 2d sess.↩