Office of the Historian

711.3227/7–1844: Telegram

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

Washington, July 18, 1944—10 p.m.

2210. On June 24 the Department, through an aide-mémoire to the Brazilian Embassy,53 invited the Brazilian Government to participate in informal exploratory talks on post-war civil aviation. To date no reply has been received.

[Page 509]

Anything that you can discreetly and informally do to expedite acceptance of this invitation and the commencement of the talks at an early date will be helpful.54

Hull
  1. See footnote 35, p. 494.↩
  2. Ambassador Caffery in telegram 2826, August 9, 1944, reported that he had, on the previous day, made inquiries of the Brazilian Minister of Air, who stated that his principal officers had under study the proposed exploratory talks on postwar civil aviation (711.3227/8–944).↩