Foreign Relations of the United States, 1947, The American Republics, Volume VIII

832.51/1–2147: Telegram

The Ambassador in Brazil (Pawley) to the Secretary of State

confidential

Rio de Janeiro, January 21, 1947—7 p.m.

85. I have just received memo from José Pimenta, President, Cia Vale Rio Doce,¹¹ reference loan $7,500,000 which Brazil is endeavoring to negotiate with Export-Import Bank for completion Rio Doce project, setting forth following items for which this money is needed:

(1) railroad equipment, cement, explosives, structural steel, trucks, and automobiles to be imported from US;

(2) payment salaries American technical personnel engaged in project;

(3) payment American engineering firms who hold contracts for completion of railway.

Pawley

11. Brazilian governmental corporation which mined and exported iron ore. See ibid., 1942, vol. v, pp. 678–679, 690, and 690n .