810.34 Leasing/53: Telegram
The Ambassador in Brazil (Caffery) to the Secretary of State
Rio de
Janeiro, August 17, 1937—6
p.m.
[Received August 17—5:12 p.m.]
[Received August 17—5:12 p.m.]
102. For Welles.16 The Minister for Foreign Affairs informed me today that the Argentine Ambassador here had read to him a copy of the instructions which he said were sent to Espil by Saavedra Lamas. He instructed Espil to take up this matter directly with Secretary Hull, setting out that in his opinion the destroyer matter was a plot hatched by you, Aranha and President Vargas as part of a far reaching scheme to dominate the American continent.
Caffery
- Sumner Welles, Under Secretary of State.↩