835.248/102: Telegram.
The Ambassador in Brazil (Caffery) to the Secretary of State
[Received 5:40 p.m.]
124. For the Under Secretary. Department’s telegram No. 69. Aranha insists on his point of view as set out in the first sentence of [Page 320] the third paragraph of your telegram that the United States should afford facilities of the sort in question to Brazil and should deny them to Argentina. He insists also that the purpose behind the request of the Argentine Government for military aviation instructors is to prepare themselves for the eventual possibility of sending bombing planes to Brazilian cities. I, of course, endeavored to refute this but he is very stubborn in this case. He repeats and repeats that he does not understand your change of policy.
My opinion is that it is best to say nothing more to him on the subject.