Word: aranha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several weeks ago, on the morning of the voting, Masaryk, accompanied by Russia's Andrei Gromyko, turned up in the office of the Assembly President, Brazil's suave Oswaldo Aranha, and announced that Czechoslovakia did not choose to run. Gromyko said that the Ukraine would be a candidate instead. Latin American delegates then agreed to support the Ukraine's Dmitri Manuilsky. This did not indicate any love of Russia south of the border (see LATIN AMERICA). The Latins assumed that the U.S. was willing to see the Security Council go on voting...
Visitor from the South. Famed Host Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil's most accomplished diplomat, would not be a delegate -he could never have played second fiddle to his rival, Foreign Minister Raul Fernandes-but he was sure to get in diplomatic licks with small get-togethers for Marshall, Vandenberg and other bigwigs...
...Jews do we mean? . . . You will perhaps be surprised [the Assembly was] to hear that there are a large number of people living ... on our [northwestern] borders, who claim descent from Israel . . . something like, I should think, between 20 to 30 million people." Said tired Assembly President Dr. Oswaldo Aranha at last: "I am sure the eminent jurist who is the Indian representative knows what I mean when I refer to flatus vocis, which scholars use when they want to refer to people who are talking too much about nothing...
This week the delegates of 55 nations moved in, swiftly elected Brazil's tall, grey Dr. Oswaldo Aranha president of their special session and, without formality, buckled down to the Palestine question...
...Manhattan, Brazil's magnetic, dyspeptic Oswaldo Aranha breathed easier and ate better. After scrutinizing 50 X-ray plates, specialists had found no trace of the ailment which has been troubling the former Ambassador to Washington. Aranha got the news in the nick of time. This week he is taking on a strenuous job: Brazilian delegate to the U.N. Security Council. During March, he will be the council's president...