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President-Dictator Getulio Vargas stood on the Avenida Rio Branco last week, watched the 1st Expeditionary Infantry Division parade through Rio de Janeiro. Soon they will sail for overseas battlefields (destination: secret). The President and his people had not been chummy of late (Brazilians want more democracy), but here was something of which they could all be proud. For over two hours the ruler-straight lines swept past, replete with brand-new howitzers, anti-tank guns, mortars, armored cars, jeeps from...
...Avenida Corrientes, the local Broadway, was dimmed to save electricity; locomotives eked out their coal with wood and corn-on-the-cob. Excepting such details, the war had brought nothing but boom to Buenos Aires. Legitimate businessmen prospered; well-heeled opportunists fattened. Hard-eyed Fritz Mandl, fabulous Austrian munitions magnate and former husband of Hedy Lamarr, had a new and equally beautiful wife. Hand-in-glove with the militarists, he manufactured weapons the U.S. would not supply, and kept Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, exiled Austrian bullyboy...
Last week along the Avenida de Mayo, Corrientes and the Diagonal Norte, comfortably overcoated crowds pushed toward late and heavy dinners, late and lusty shows. At La Cabana patrons sampled luscious baby beef, brought sizzling on little grills to their tables. Other restaurants featured other delicacies. Business was good; the best people were satisfied with the direction things were taking. If others in Argentina disagreed, they had no effective way of saying...
...other day in Mexico City, I stopped on Avenida Insurgentes (pronounced,my Spanish phrase book says, "Ah-ve-nee-da In-soor-hen-tess") to enquire of a policeman how to proceed to Avenida Hidalgo (pronounced, according to the book, "Ee-dahl-go"). A Mexican gentleman with glasses and a professorial black coat was boarding a streetcar near me, and as he stepped up on to the car, he dropped a folded paper. I opened the paper, thinking it might bear some forwarding address. My ears pricked as I read the contents of the paper. Remembering that in Mexico...
...short days prior to the declaration, submarines had sunk six Brazilian ships, bringing Brazil'stotal of Axis-sunk ships to 19. Lost with the ships were 169 Brazilian officers and soldiers and more than 600 civilians. As the news reached Rio, crowds swarmed into the Avenida Rio Branco, smashed windows of Axis stores, burned Nazi flags, clamored...