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Visit to Jânio. The trip was broken at Brasilia, where Dillon, on behalf of Kennedy, invited Brazil's President Jânio Quadros to visit the U.S. in December (Quadros accepted). Then Dillon was off to Punta del Este, where trouble immediately showed its hairy face. Among the 1,400 delegates gathered in the seaside resort was Castro's left-hand man. Che Guevara, who could be expected to use every weapon in his well-stocked arsenal to confuse* and defeat what he terms the "Alliance for Exploitation...
...March, Latin America Task Force Chief Adolf A. Berle met an icy reserve that bordered on hostility. Two months ago, Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon, in Brazil to present Quadros with aid of nearly $1 billion, got a somewhat bigger hello, but was still hustled in and out of Brasilia's Planalto Palace via the underground garage...
...designing of Rio's 1936 Ministry of Education, a slab on pilotis with a new feature: a honeycomb of sun-shading breeze-admitting vanes at the windows, called brises-soleīl. That single example spread to give all the major cities of Latin America, notably Brasilia, their present look of clean, high, colorful, modern business buildings...
Appeal for Austerity. So intense is the pressure, that Quadros last week felt compelled to pass up the champagne inauguration of the U.S. embassy building in his new inland capital of Brasilia. Coming after Quadros had personally promised the wife of U.S. Ambassador John Moors Cabot that he would be there, the undiplomatic failure to show up was interpreted by many as one more Quadros snub to the U.S. But the President, explained his supporters, was putting the finishing touches on a new and dramatic appeal to Brazilians to accept austerity...
Among veteran observers of the Quadros mind, both in Washington and Brasilia, Jânio's actions produced more resigned shoulder shrugging than alarm. Jânio's motives, the experts believe, are threefold: 1) a sincere desire to make Brazil more "independent" internationally, 2) the belief that to hold the allegiance of Brazil's left-wing voters he must make a show of "neutralism," 3) a profound suspicion that even in these days of "disinterested" foreign aid programs, the wheel that squeaks still gets the most grease. Almost certainly Jânio hopes that at least...