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...Gaulle, naturally, paid no attention. His sense of grandeur wounded by a Brazilian ultimatum to clear French lobster boats out of Brazilian waters, he dispatched a warship to put an end to such nonsense. Brazil responded by canceling sailors' shore leaves, ordering units of its own fleet to sea. There was an uneasy stir in foreign ministries in Paris and Rio de Janeiro; among Brazilians there was talk of breaking diplomatic relations, even of asking the U.S. to invoke the Monroe Doctrine. Headlined Rio's O Dia: WAR IS IMMINENT...
Although the Brazilian economy has shown a marked improvement over the last several months, President Joao Goulart is "too much an opportunist to continue this necessary but unpopular economic planning," Thomas Skidmore, research fellow in Latin American Studies, said Tuesday...
Speaking to the Harvard Latin American Association, Skidmore noted that Goulart has failed to continue former President Kubitscheck's program to open the Brazilian interior for industrial investment...
Kubitschek centered his program about the new Brazilian capital, Brazilia, in southeastern Brazil. "Work on the capital has been progressing at a much slower pace since Goulart took office," Skidmore said...
...program is the first Brazilian attempt to comply with the plan outlined by the Alliance...