Word: aranha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stood President Getulio Dornellas Vargas and his Minister of War, General Eurico Dutra. Their bland faces gave no hint of the tension existing within the Vargas Government - a tension which only recently caused a grave but laughable Cabinet crisis. According to the story that leaked out, Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha and other pro-U.S. ministers had planned an elaborate coup to get rid of Axis-sympathizing General Dutra...
Chilean officialdom fumed. In Rio de Janeiro, the news was a bombshell; even the U.S. embassy thought it a mistake. In the lineup outside the Commercial Attaché's door was the cousin of Brazil's Foreign Minister Aranha, wondering why his Navebraz shipping company was listed. Brazilian legalists asked whether Standard Oil's Brazilian subsidiary would sell gas to Condor. If not, would it run afoul of Brazil's anti-trust laws? If yes, would Standard blacklist its subsidiary? In Buenos Aires, annoyed and puzzled businessmen chiefly feared a rise in prices, since German firms...
...immediate disadvantage. Whether in the long run the Nazi propaganda will backfire and U.S. propaganda produce sound results, no one could say last week. Most likely result was that Argentina. Brazil and Chile would soon sicken of all propaganda. Some two months ago good-natured Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil quipped to a U.S. visitor: "The next good-will mission that arrives in Rio, Brazil will declare war on the United States...
...When I go back to my country," said Oswaldo Aranha, Foreign Minister of Brazil, last year in Washington, "I shall propose that we erect a statue to Herr Hitler. For it is Hitler who at last succeeded in drawing the attention of the United States to Brazil...
...Minister Aranha carried out his intention, he could have added a wreath to the statue last week. It was the sinister shadow of Adolf Hitler hovering over South America that inspired the U. S. Government to open its purse strings for a fat loan to help Brazil develop her steel industry...