Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Ambassador of Brazil Mauricio Nabuco, General Goes Montiero, and C. R. Burrows

5134 599 DEPARTMENT OF STATE 226 83 Memorandum of Conversation DATE: August 3, 1951 SUBJECT: KOREAN AND UNITING FOR PEACE AID FROM BRAZIL PARTICIPANTS: S - The Secretary General Goes Monteiro, Chief of the General Staff of Brazilian Armed Forces Mr. Mauricio Nabuco, Brazilian Ambassador COPIES TO: AR - Mr. Burrows OSA - Ambassador Warren UNA ARA - Mr. Miller FE S/ISA - Mr. Cabot RE IADB - Gen. Bolté 1-1493 General Goes Monteiro presented his compliments and said that in connection with the business which brought him to Washington he was making his first formal call at the Department of State. He handed me a letter from the Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, João Neves da Fontoura. I told General Goes Monteiro that on behalf of my Government I was happy to extend him a welcome to Washington. General Goes Monteiro explained his mission as being in direct connection with his country's interest in and desire to comply with its United Nations commitments and said that he was here to discuss with the proper authorities of the UN and of the Unified Command not only Brazil's interest in compliance with Secretary General Trygve Lie's June 22 request for additional troops in Korea and the Uniting for Peace Resolution, but also the best way in which Brazil might so strengthen her economic and military position as to make that help effective. I then mentioned to General Goes Monteiro my conversation with his Foreign Minister last April during the Fourth Meeting of Consultation of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of American States with reference to the possibility of Brazil making troops available to the Unified Command in Korea. I said that when I had spoken to Dr. Neves da Fontoura at that time the fighting war in Korea was in a phase of great activity, that there had been some change in the status of the Korean situation since then and that there DECLASSIFIED C.O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 50 a Œ THE RECBELVEX OE 21V1E STATE LTR. OSD letter, 31677 PROJECT WLT 77-44 OLEICE MARS Data 5-21-77