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...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...
Where's Charley? dresses up its pratfall plot with actual Oxford settings, such pleasant songs as My Darling, My Darling, and a flashy Brazilian dance number in which Bolger imagines he is a dashing Spanish don. Besides Dancer Bolger, the picture borrows three other leading players from the 1948 Broadway musicomedy Where's Charley?, on which it is based: Allyn McLerie as Charley's comically deadpan girl friend; Horace Cooper as her fiercely mustachioed, fortune-hunting Uncle Spettigue, who woos Charley's aunt in a series of galloping Mack Sennett chases; and Robert Shackleton as Charley...
When U.S. relations with Argentina get worse, U.S. relations with Brazil, Argentina's traditional South American rival, always get correspondingly better. Last week U.S.-Brazilian relations were proceeding famously: on the eve of a state visit by Dean Acheson, a U.S. task force led by the 37,000-ton carrier Oriskany, dazzled Rio in a whirlwind call...
...issue this time was control of Rio's Clube Militar, an august social and fraternal organization open to all Brazilian officers. Firmly entrenched in the club, the Communists had taken over its monthly magazine, Revista do Clube Militar, published made-in-Moscow editorials blasting the Korean campaign as "Wall Street imperialism" and U.N. troops as "butchers." And even after Vargas dismissed him as Brazil's War Minister, Estillac Leal still held his job as the club's president...
...result removed any suspicion that Brazilian officers were indifferent to the increasing evidence of Communism in the armed, forces. But under Brazil's army code Communist Party membership is still no grounds for dismissal. Officers of the Democratic Crusade hoped that their convincing victory would encourage President Vargas to move a little faster against the Communists in the army...