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A–A, Assistant Secretary of State: Acheson

A–A, Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs: Armour

A–Br, Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs: Braden

ABWEHR, Foreign Intelligence Service of the High Command of the German Armed Forces

ACEDE, Administrative Commission for Economic Defense (in Brazil)

ActSecy, Acting Secretary

AD, Acción Democrática (Democratic Action Party in Venezuela)

AFTOSA, Commission, Mexican-United States Commission for the Eradication of Foot and Mouth Disease

Agri, Dept. of Agriculture

A–H, Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas: Hilldring

a.i., ad interim

Amb, Ambassador

ammo, ammunition

AmReps, American Republics

AP, Associated Press

ARA, Office of American Republic Affairs

Arg, Argentina

AT, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, Thorpe

AT–6, transport plane

AT–11, light transport plane

AV, Aviation Division

AWS, Air Warning Station

B, Balboas

B–17, Flying Fortress

B–25, horizontal bomber

BA, Buenos Aires

BA, Division of Brazilian Affairs, Department of State

BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation

BC, Division of British Commonwealth Affairs

BCB, Banco de Credito da Borracha

BDC, Bolivian Development Corporation

BDC, British Disposals Commission

Bol, Bolivia

Braz, Brazil

Brit, British

C–47, transport plane

CAA, Civil Aeronautics Administration

CAB, Civil Aeronautics Board, Dept. of Commerce

CBF, Corporatión Boliviano Fomento

CCC, Commodity Credit Corporation

CDC, Caribbean Defense Command

Chil, Chilean

ChilGov, Chilean Government

Cia, compañia

C.i.f., Commission, Insurance, Freight

CIO, Congress of Industrial Organizations

CMA, Mexican air carrier (Compañia Mexicana de Aviación)

Col, Colombia

ComGenCarib, Commanding General, Caribbean Defense Command

Conf, Conference

conf, confidential

Cong, Congress

COPEI, Comite de Organizatión Politica Electoral Independiente of Venezuela

Cos, companies

CP, Division of Commercial Policy

CPA, Division of Central America and Panama Affairs

CPD, Committee for Political Defense

CPH, Communist Party of Haiti

Cr, cruzeiros

CRB, Division of Caribbean Affairs

CSGID, CSAF, US War Department, transmission code symbols

CTC, Confederación de Trabajadores de Colombia

CTCh, Confederación de Trabajadores de Chile

DE, destroyer escort

DelSec, Delegation Secretariat

Depcirins, Department circular instruction

Depcirtel, Department circular telegram

Depgam, Department Airgram

Deptel, Department telegram

Des, despatch

DNC, National Coffee Department of Brazil

ECOSOC, Economic and Social Council of the United Nations

ED, Division of Investment and Economic Development

Emb, Embassy

Embdesp, Embassy despatch

Embtel, Embassy telegram

EO, Executive Order

ERP, European Recovery Program

ES, Division of Economic Security

EUR, Office of European Affairs

Eximbank, Export-Import Bank of Washington

FAMA, Flota Aérea Mercante Argentina (Argentine Mercantile Air Fleet, joint governmental and private company)

FAO, Food and Agricultural Organization

fas, free along side ship

FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation

FBO, Division of Foreign Buildings Operations

FBPC, Foreign Bondholders Protective Council

FE, Office of Far Eastern Affairs

FLC, Foreign Liquidation Commissioner

Fld Comm, Field Commissioner, Foreign Liquidation Commissioner’s Office

FN, Division of Financial Affairs

FonMin, Foreign Minister

FonOff, Foreign Office

ForOffs, Foreign Offices

FPL, Guatemalan political party (Frente Popular Libertador)

FRITO, From International Trade Organization

GAO, General Accounting Office, United States Government

GA, Division of German and Austrian Economic Affairs

GATT, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

GA UN, General Assembly, United Nations

Gov Bd PAU, Governing Board of the Pan American Union

HQ, Headquarters

IA, Division of Special Inter-American Affairs

IARA, Inter-Allied Reparation Agency

ICAO, International Civil Aviation Organization

IEF, see IEFC

IEFC, Internal Emergency Food Council

IIAA, Institute of Inter-American Affairs

ILO, International Labor Office

info, information

IR, International Resources Division

IS, Division of International Security Affairs

ITO, International Trade Organization, United Nations

I T & T, International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation

JBUSDC, Joint Brazil-US Defense Commission

JBUSMC, Joint Brazil-US Military Commission

JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff

LA, Latin America

LAB, Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano

LAMSA, Mexican air carrier (Lineas Aéreas Mexicanas)

LCI, landing craft; infantry

LCT, landing craft; tank

LCVP, landing craft; vehicles, personnel

Le, Legal Adviser

LL, Lend Lease

LP, Division of Lend Lease and Surplus War Property Affairs

LST, landing ship; tank

LT, long ton

MA, Division of Mexican Affairs

Marit Comm, Maritime Commission

MD, Munitions Division

Mex, Inter-American Conference at Mexico City, 1945

Min, Ministry

mitel, my telegram

ML, Naval vessel; launch

MOS, Ministry of Supply of the United Kingdom

mytel, my telegram

mygam, my airgram

NAC, National Advisory Council

NEA, Office of Near Eastern and African Affairs

NSDAP, National Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei

NWC, Division of North and West Coast Affairs

OA, Division of International Organization Affairs

OA or PBY, Navy patrol-bomber

OFD, Office of Financial and Development Policy

OFLC, Office of the Foreign Liquidation Commissioner

OIT, Office of International Trade

OMA, Office of Mutual Aid of Belgium

ONI, Office of Naval Intelligence

OPA, Office of Price Administration

ourtel, our telegram

P–38, pursuit plane

PAA, Pan American Airways

Panagra, Pan American Grace Airways

Pan Am, Pan American

PanAir, Pan American Airways

Par, Paraguayan, Paraguay

PAR, Guatemalan political party (Partido Acción Revolucionaria)

Para, Paraguay

Parag, Paraguay

PAU, Pan American Union

PCA, Policy Committee on Arms and Armaments

PED, Petroleum Division

PEMEX, Mexican Government agency responsible for management of the Mexican petroleum industry (Petroleos Mexicanos)

PICAO, Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization

PR, Public Resolution

PRA, Public Roads Administration, Federal Works Agency

Pres, President

PRN, National Republican Party (Costa Rica)

PSP, Popular Socialist Party (Haiti)

PT, trainer plane

PT–, motor torpedo boat

PUN, National Union Party (Costa Rica)

RDC, Rubber Development Corporation

reDeptel, regarding Department telegram

reEmbdesp, regarding Embassy despatch

reEmbgram, regarding Embassy airgram

reEmbtel, regarding Embassy telegram

refEmtel, reference, Embassy telegram

remytel, regarding my telegram

res, resolution

re tel, regarding telegram

reurlet, regarding your letter

reurtel, regarding your telegram

RFC, Reconstruction Finance Corporation

RPA, Division of River Plate Affairs

SA, South America

SD, Shipping Division of the Department of State

SD, Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service of the National Socialist Elite Guard in Germany)

SHADA, Haitian-American Society for Agricultural Development (Société Haitiano-Américaine de Développement Agricole)

SPA, Office of Special Political Affairs

SOP, Standard Operating Procedure

S/S–PR, Protocol Staff

SWNCC, State–War–Navy Coordinating Committee

TACA, Central American Air Transport Company (Transportes Aéreos Centroamericanos, S.A.)

U, Under Secretary of State

UE, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs

UK, United Kingdom

UN, United Nations

UNGA, United Nations General Assembly

UP, United Press

ur, your

URD, Union Republicana Democratica of Venezuela

urinfo, your information

urtel, your telegram

USDA, United States Department of Agriculture

USDel, United States Delegation

U.S.S.R., Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

V–E Day, Allied victory in Europe

Ven, Venezuela

YNG, gate vessel

YPF, Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscale of Argentina

YPFB, Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscoles Bolivianos (Bolivian Petroleum Company, a government monopoly)

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

List of Abbreviations and Symbols