287. Editorial Note
Horácio Láfer, Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, made an informal visit to Washington, March 18–20, at the invitation of Secretary of State Herter. A briefing memorandum of March 16 on these discussions from Roy R. Rubottom, Jr., to Secretary Herter is in Department of State, Rubottom–Mann Files: Lot 62 D 418, Brazil 1960. A memorandum of their conversation on March 18, indicating Brazil’s desire to open negotiations for a new surplus agricultural commodities agreement, is ibid., Central Files, 411.324/3–1860. The memorandum of Láfer’s conversation with President Eisenhower is infra. For text of the joint communiqué of March 19 on Láfer’s talks with Secretary Herter, see Department of State Bulletin, April 4, 1960, page 523.