Memorandum of Conversation with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Edward G. Miller, W. Tapley Bennett, Jr., and the Ambassadors of Nicaragua, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Honduras, Venezuela, Colombia, Guatemala, and Costa Rica, and the Charges d'Affaires of Cuba, Haiti, and Ecuador

5021 154 D 736 MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION Monday, June 19, 1950 ARCHIVES RECORDS 'NATIONAL AMD 5 SERVICE" PARTICIPANTS: The Secretary ARA - Mr. Miller MID - Mr. Bermett with the following Ambassadors: Ambassador Seville-Sacasa of Nicaragua Ambassador Castro of El Salvador Ambassador Thomen of the Dominican Republic Ambessador Nabuco of Brazil Ambassador de la Colina of Mexico Anbassador Berckemeyer of Pert Ambassador Valle of Honduras Ambassador Pocaterra of Venezuela Ambassador Zuleta Angel of Colombia Ambassador Goubaud-Carrera of Guatemala Ambassador Echandi of Costa Rica Settor Joaquin E. Mayer, Charge d'Affaires of Cuba Senor Colimon, Charge d'Affaires of Haiti Senor Moscoso, Charge d'Affaires of Ecuador SUBJECT: Presentation of Notes Motivated by Coffee Report Issued by the Senate Subcomnittee on Agriculture and Forestry. COPIES TO: s/s ARA/P MWC ARA/E EC ATA - Miss Grant ARA - Ambassador Nufer IIID - Hr. Cale ARA - Ambassador Daniels MID AR - Mr. Droir All American embassies of each country listed above. Ambassador Sevilla-Sacase, acting as spoitesmen for the fourteen chiefs of mission, spolce briefly of the prooccupation which had been caused throughout the coffee-producing countries on Iatin America by the charges contained in the report on coffee recently issued by a Subeommittee of the Senate committee on Agriculture and Forestry. He said that the Governments and peoples of the fourteen countries represented at the meeting vere deeply concerned over the implica- tions of manipulations and malpractices on the part of the coffee- producing countries to force an umverranted rise in the price of coffee in the United States market. He stated that ho and his col- leagues had consulted together and had decided to present a joint note to the Department to make known thoir preoccupation with the situation and concluded with an expression of hope that there would DECLASSIRED be no E.O. 10501 RESTRICT