Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does the President of Brazil believe his country can be the world's fourth greatest nation in 20 years? See THE HEMISPHERE, J. K. in a Hurry...
...pluck a feather from the eagle. Example: admission to the U.N. of Red China, which has been staging a major propaganda drive across Latin America (TIME, July 27). Last month Cuban Delegate Manuel Bisbe made the first open gesture by abstaining from backing the block-Red China bloc. Now Brazil's U.N. delegate, Augusto Frederico Schmidt, blusters that "popular outcry in our countries is becoming so strong on the Red China issue that we may soon have to give in and change our position...
...Brazil and the U.S. are historic friends and close partners in trade. But to hear Brazil's xenophobes and leftists tell it, the U.S. is stealing atomic minerals, interfering with the coffee market, sucking out exorbitant profits, monopolizing Brazilian industry (or, on the other hand, refusing to invest in Brazil). Career Diplomat John Moors Cabot, who built a reputation in Sweden from 1954 to 1957 as an ambassador willing to speak up anywhere any time for the U.S., was appalled at such complaints when he arrived in July to be U.S. ambassador. Last week, in a speech, he ticked...
Bank have gone to Brazil-$1.3 billion worth. The U.S. has trained more than 1,000 doctors, nurses and technicians, has helped to eradicate malaria, and to build Brazil's greatest steel plant. ¶In the private field, the U.S. buys 58% of Brazil's coffee exports, has invested more than $1.3 billion to employ 94,000 Brazilians, do $427 million worth of local business with Brazilian suppliers, pay $77 million in taxes. U.S. capital is helping Brazil develop by making trucks, tires, electricity and electrical equipment, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, business machines. ¶In the defense field...
...effect, Ambassador Cabot asked the critics of the U.S. to inform themselves and reconsider. "Brazil could adopt a new political orientation," warned Cabot, "only at the cost of endangering her own security as well as that of the U.S." Brazil's press threw open its columns, gave Cabot's blunt talk big and generally favorable play...