Office of the Historian

740.0011 Pacific War/895: Telegram

The Ambassador in Venezuela (Corrigan) to the Secretary of State

Caracas, December 9, 1941.
[Received December 10—3:13 a.m.]

287. President Medina in an eloquent discourse, his first public message to the Venezuelan people since the outbreak of hostilities, [Page 116] condemned Japanese aggression and placed Venezuela squarely alongside the United States and the democracies. The speech was broadcast by all radio stations throughout the nation.

Corrigan