811.20 Defense (M) Brazil/1908: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Brazil (Caffery)
122. Department’s 3672, November 24. Department has been advised by Embassy at Santiago that 50,247 kilograms washed crude rubber arrived Valparaiso December 13, consigned to Corporación de Fomento, shipped from Santos, Brazil, November 17, by Arthur Dianna y Compañia Limitada.
The Department’s information on Chile’s crude rubber supply and demand was contained in Department’s 3672, November 24.
The shipment referred to is in violation of the rubber agreement. As indicated in Department’s 3672 it consists of rubber not needed by Chile and at least part of which will probably reach Argentina in finished form.
Under the circumstances you are requested to take the matter up with the Minister of Foreign Affairs expressing the view that the shipment violated the rubber agreement and protesting such violation, especially when Chile has no justifiable need for the rubber and when Brazil and this Government have undertaken to supply and are supplying Chile’s needs for tires and other rubber products.