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Still hoping to mediate between Colombia and Peru, zealous Brazilian Foreign Minister Afranio de Mello Franco labored day & night in Rio de Janeiro to keep war from breaking out at Leticia. Striding out of Minister de Mello Franco's office after a half-hour conference, Colombian Minister Dr. Carlos Uribe Echeverri was asked how much longer Colombia's fleet would wait before striking to recover Leticia...
...President. Nations which recognized him three days later: Italy, Portugal (Brazilians speak Portuguese), Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Uruguay. Two more days passed before the U. S. and Great Britain recognized Revolutionist Vargas almost simultaneously (see p. 16). France followed a day later. The New Cabinet is considered "strong." Foreign Minister Afranio de Mello Franco used to represent Brazil at League of Nations meetings, is the Brazilian diplomat best known in Europe. Minister of Finance Jose Maria Whitaker is a former President of the Banco do Brasil and of the Banco Commercial do Estado de Sao Paulo. Acts of the new Cabinet...
...Despite the numerous species of poisonous snakes in North and South America, there is now an antivenin for every kind of snake poison in the western hemisphere," stated Dr. Afranio do Amaral, noted ophiologist and director of the Instituto Butantan at Sao Paulo, Brazil, in an interview yesterday...
Last week the man at present most active in the world for snake poison research debarked at Manhattan. He was Dr. Afranio do Amaral, the soft-voiced suave herpetologist. He came from Brazil† where he is director of the Institute Sorotherapico at Butantan, State of Sao Paulo. His mission was to give a talk or two at Harvard's School of Public Health, where he is formally a lecturer, and to confer with Mulford's President Milton Campbell, his good friend and supporter. Dr. do Amaral is consulting director of Mulford's Antivenin Institute of America...
Tearful Farewell. Senhor Afranio Mello Franco, the Brazilian representative, conveyed the umbrage of Rio de Janeiro by remaining "indisposed" throughout the week, thus leaving Brazil's nonpermanent seat ostentatiously vacant...