741.53/153: Telegram

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

4739. Your 3771, October 6, 10 p.m. President Vargas is travelling on the southern frontier and will not return to Rio until the latter part of next week (my 4721, October 6, 10 a.m.74). Today he is to lunch at his father’s fazenda.

Under these circumstances I showed the telegram to Aranha75 and we both are in complete agreement that President Vargas, while deprecating the fact that Salazar preferred to do this business with the British rather than with Brazil, will warmly approve the arrangement made as it is in the good cause.

I will of course convey the message to President Vargas when I have the opportunity of doing so. I duly impressed upon Aranha the necessity for secrecy.

Caffery
  1. Not printed.
  2. Oswaldo Aranha, Brazilian Minister for Foreign Affairs.