722.2315/1278: Telegram
The Chargé in Brazil (Scotten) to the Secretary of State
Rio de
Janeiro, December 28, 1938—11
a.m.
[Received December 28—10:55 a.m.]
[Received December 28—10:55 a.m.]
298. For the Acting Secretary of State. Your 147, December 27, 1 p.m. In compliance with your suggestion Aranha will immediately [Page 245] instruct Mello Franco to remain in Lima and endeavor to obtain an agreement in principle between the Peruvian and Ecuadorean Foreign Ministers. He will likewise instruct Mello Franco to keep in touch with the American Ambassador there.
Scotten