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832.24/2725

Memorandum by the Secretary of State to President Roosevelt

[Washington,] January 22, 1944.

Thank you for your memorandum regarding the assignment of additional military supplies to Brazil. Ambassador Caffery, who will be back in Brazil about January 26, will personally tell President [Page 570] Vargas the good news. Since Ambassador Caffery’s conversation with you the War Department has decided to construct two good airports in southern Brazil,63 one at Florianópolis and the other at Pôrto Alegre. All of these measures should have a very reassuring effect.

C[ordell] H[ull]
  1. See also section entitled “The conclusion of a military aviation agreement between the United States and Brazil …”, pp. 543 ff.↩