832.20/74

The Secretary of State to the Brazilian Ambassador (Lima e Silva)

Excellency: With reference to Your Excellency’s note No. 24 of March 13, 1934,87 transmitting a draft of a contract providing for a military mission to Brazil, and to various conversations on this subject held in the Department of State, I have the honor to inform you that in compliance with the request contained in Your Excellency’s memorandum of December 11, 1933, the Secretary of War has designated, subject to the approval of Your Excellency’s Government, Lieutenant Colonel Rodney H. Smith, C. A. C, and Captain William D. Hohenthal, C. A. C, to serve on this mission.

Accept [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:
William Phillips
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