Office of the Historian

033.1120 H 87/10: Telegram

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

Rio de Janeiro, August 11, 1922—1 p.m.
[Received 2:12 p.m.]

87. Department’s 89 July 24, 4 p.m.22 Brazilian Foreign Office informed me to-day that Secretary of State in his character as dean [Page 661] of special ambassadors to the centennial celebration will be requested to speak in the name of his colleagues at a dinner given by President of Brazil on September 9th. He will also be requested to speak at a dinner to special ambassadors offered by Brazilian Government on September 10th over which Minister for Foreign Affairs will not preside and at which President of Brazil will probably not be present.23

Morgan
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. The four speeches made by the Secretary of State were published in Addresses in Brazil Delivered by the Hon. Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of State, September, 1922 (Washington, The Pan American Union, 1922).↩