832.8595/4: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Brazil (Caffery)
807. Your 888, March 16, 7 p.m. Navy Department states that it has cabled the Naval Attaché of your Embassy12 to offer to the Brazilian authorities all practicable assistance in routing Brazilian merchant vessels en route to the United States.
At present the British Naval Control Service is routing all Brazilian merchant ships whose masters so request. However, the United States Navy is assigning officers to all principal ports in the other American republics with instructions to be prepared to assume full control of routing in this area about July 1. In the meantime United States Naval Attachés and Observers in such ports as they are stationed will be glad to render any available assistance of this kind.
- Rear Adm. Augustin T. Beauregard.↩