Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1943, The American Republics, Volume V

832.20/583

The Ambassador in Brazil (Caffery) to the Adviser on Political Relations (Duggan)

Rio de Janeiro, November 4, 1943.
[Received November 13.]

Dear Larry: I send you herewith copy and translation of a proposed amplified agreement⁶⁷ which Aranha handed me this morning, most informally he said, to be put before our authorities as a possible addition to the political-military agreement we signed on May 23, 1942.⁶⁸ He insisted that there was nothing formal about the presentation of this; he wants to know what we frankly think of it.

I trust that you will let me know.

With all good wishes,

Very sincerely yours,

Jefferson Caffery

67. Not printed; under this supplementary proposal Brazil was to prepare an expeditionary force, the head of which was to be fully authorized to discuss its transportation and use with the American Command. This force was to be used as an indivisible unit with supporting aircraft, artillery, and vehicles supplied by the High Command. Its transportation, food, supplies, and pay were to be provided by the United States. The War Department concluded that a formal agreement of this sort was unnecessary but that a working agreement covering the operations of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force was appropriate.
68. For information on this agreement, entered into by an exchange of notes dated May 23 and May 27, 1942, at Rio de Janeiro, see Stetson Conn and Byron Fairchild, The Framework of Hemisphere Defense, in the official Army history United States Army in World War II: The Western Hemisphere (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1960), pp. 317–319.