Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brazilian Communists hate the most is Carlos Lacerda, hard-driving editor of Rio's Tribuna da Imprensa, who has crusaded against the Red menace in Brazil since his days as a bright young columnist. Last week Lacerda was on another anti-Red crusade. Day after day he front-paged photostated evidence-letters, government records, police reports-that Brazil's foreign ministry is infested with Communists...
Without pausing after his flying tour of European capitals, Dean Acheson last week began a six-day visit to the principal cities of Brazil. The first U.S. Secretary of State to visit South America in four years, he was there to reassure Brazilians that the U.S., in its preoccupation with the problems of Europe and Asia, has not forgotten its friendship with the world's largest republic...
Questions & Answers. The time of the visit was auspicious. The State Department was restudying its Western Hemisphere policy and seriously considering whether it should recognize as a basic fact that Brazil is the U.S.'s principal Latin American partner. In Rio, a joint commission was planning a billion-dollar Brazilian development program, half of it to be financed mainly by U.S. loans. Earlier in the week $37.5 million in rail and power loans for Brazil had been announced by the World Bank in Washington...
...Korea, in Indo-China, the needs of French, British and our own troops in Europe. Those needs must be met or there will be no front line. But... we must carry out our historic policy in this hemisphere. Since the war, some $410 millions have been invested in Brazil. We are now entering into an even more active period of cooperation...
...much of the past uneasiness evaporated. Though the moderate newspaper Tribuna da Imprensa continued to caution against "the lack of continuity of the Good Neighbor policy," many Brazilian leaders were impressed by the weight of the problems U.S. foreign policy must face. Acheson, for his part, was impressed by Brazil. "Here is hope," he said. "I return to the U.S. with a lift of spirit which I have not had since I became Secretary of State...