800.8830 Brazil/78a: Telegram

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

2496. The Department will do its utmost to obtain space for shipment to Brazil of 3900 tons of newsprint in August and September. However, due to the critical shipping situation and to the fact that the average monthly shipments of newsprint for the first 6 months of [Page 740] 1942 to Brazil amounted to 1946 tons, the Department requests the Embassy’s comments on urging the curtailment of the number of editions and size of newspapers by approximately 30 per cent, limiting future monthly shipments to 2500 tons. It has been reported that Brazilian newspapers have made no cut in the number of editions or size as yet.

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