832.24/292: Telegram
The Chargé in Brazil (Burdett) to the Secretary of State
Rio de
Janeiro, December 13, 1940—3
p.m.
[Received 5:21 p.m.]
[Received 5:21 p.m.]
661. For the Under Secretary. Reference Embassy’s No. 658, December 11, 6 p.m. The Minister for Foreign Affairs today showed me a telegram from his Ambassador in London which said with regard to the Siqueira Campos case that the Foreign Office requests [Page 653] that no action be taken in Brazil at this time and promises that the case will be settled within a few days.
However, the D. I. P. today issued an order forbidding newsreels shown in Bio from running any Reference to Great Britain.
Burdett