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Donning fresh white linens, Mr. Welles joined others from the Americas in presenting credentials to Foreign Minister Aranha, paying a courtesy call on President Vargas. He talked with early Argentine delegates. He had a look at the site of the coming meetings-historic Tiradentes Palace, named for Brazil's revolutionary hero, a dentist (tiradente means "tooth-puller") who was hanged by the Portuguese 150 years ago and his body quartered and sent in brine as a warning to all parts of the country...
...Argentina remained neutral throughout World War I her neutrality was benevolently pro-U.S. and pro-British. For that, much of the credit goes to Sumner Welles. In Rio, Mr. Welles's diplomacy will be reinforced by the web of cooperation and compromise which Brazil's Oswaldo Aranha wove in a recent good-will trip to Argentina, Uruguay and Chile...
...Spider. His admirers say that Aranha (pronounced Aran-yah) has the eloquence of Aristide Briand, the romantic dash of D'Artagnan and the Pan-American idealism of the great Simón Bolivar. Actually Aranha is a onetime fire-breathing revolutionary who believes with cold logic that Brazil's self-interest now, as traditionally in the past, lies in close ties with the U.S. He has cemented those ties through hard work, U.S. loans and a charming gift of gab in Portuguese, French, Spanish and English. The word Aranha means "spider" in Portuguese and Aranha, audacious, hypertonic, sometimes...
Industrious and endowed with a spider's timing for the coup de grâce, Aranha was the "strong man" of the 1930 revolution which put dumpy little Getulio Dornellas Vargas into power. As No. 1 man, Vargas has been an old-fashioned South American dictator with newfangled ideas patterned on the academic peasant-paced authoritarianism of Portugal...
...Aranha's philosophy of government is like that of many a Latin American who thinks democracy concerns personal rights and liberties, not necessarily a parliamentary form of government. He has parried claims that Brazil brought Fascism to the Americas by referring to Britain's class system and to slavery under the U.S. Constitution. But he was disappointed and angry when a Vargas coup in 1937 shackled elective government. For three months Aranha and Vargas were on the outs. Then Brazilians circulated the story that Aranha, a crack pistol shot, had hinted that settlement of the break "depends...