Word: barata
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...originating outside of the U.S. is carried over CBS-a weekly Calling Pan America program-but the network hopes for more. Working mouth in microphone with CBS is Nelson Rockefeller's Office for the Coordination of Inter-American Affairs, which supplies programs and suggestions. For instance, Dr. Julio Barata, Brazilian radio chief (TIME, March 30), now makes a five-minute broadcast daily from Manhattan in which he comments on U.S. news for Brazilian listeners, calls a spade a spade...
...send advisers and writers to make the program hum in good Portuguese. Head of the delegation is Dr. Assis de Figueiredo, D.I.P.'s assistant director, who will stay in the U.S. a few weeks. With him were the head of D.I.P.'s radio division, Dr. Julio Barata, and three writers, Raymundo Magalhães, Origines Lessa and Pompeu de Souza, all of whom brought their families and will stay a good long time, maybe a year...
...things that genial, low-voiced Dr. Barata has lately done for President Vargas is to forbid all foreign-language broadcasts in Brazil and to put an end to the use by Brazilian stations of all Axis news services. One of his worries has been clandestine radio communication between Axis agents on the Brazilian coast and German submarines at sea. A lesser worry has been short-wave propaganda from Berlin- telling Brazilians they are being taken into a war that is already lost...
This kind of thing, said Dr. Barata, does not go over big with Brazilians, who think that "a people who can produce a man like MacArthur cannot lose...
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