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Rusk entrusted the delicate task of talking a little firmness into the "soft six" to Argentine Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Cárcano. The Argentine at one point got President Arturo Frondizi to telephone Brazilian President João ("Jango") Goulart from Buenos Aires to plead for modification of Brazil's rigid hands-off-Cuba position. The U.S. had high hopes that Chile would come around; instead, it turned down every plea. Nothing worked, and at the end, although sympathetic with the majority cause himself, Cárcano was forbidden to cast Argentina's "big" vote with...
...many Brazilian political emissaries who have dogged his path around the world pleading for some sort of commitment, he has remained aloof. His latest comment was in character: "I shall return to Brazil at the opportune moment, and only I will decide when that moment arrives. I will make my own campaign when, how and where I want. I am not afraid of sneers, or veiled or ostensible threats. I have a destiny to fulfill, and I will...
...small recovery melted like a snowball on Copacabana beach. The tax-reform bill bogged down. But another bill, full of demagogic appeal, raced through the House. It would forbid foreign firms to sell stocks and bonds in Brazil. It would prohibit foreigners from taking over enterprises "being exploited" by Brazilian capital...
...Cuba is no better than what we have are," repiled one Brazilian peasant then Plank questioned him on the tour. The only difference is that there the hacienda-owner is the stato...
Plank believes that these "obscure forces" were a result of political miscalculation by Quadros. The independent Brazilian president was trying to satisfy both the far right and the far left in Brazil by maintaining a moderate domestic policy and a radical foreign policy...