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...Mother, God & the U.S." This week, for the first time since Dom Pedro's visit, another Brazilian chief of state was due in the U.S. During his ten-day stay, President Eurico Caspar Dutra, accompanied by his son António João Dutra, his daughter-in-law, and his naval aide Raul Reis, will be the guest of Harry Truman, whom he entertained in Rio in 1947. He will address a joint session of Congress, lay a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, spend three days in Manhattan, and fly south to inspect...
Dutra comes to the U.S. as President of a nation whose friendly relations with the U.S. go back to 1789, when Thomas Jefferson met a group of young Brazilian students in Paris and encouraged their dreams of independence. As a Brazilian foreign officer put it: "We are taught three things in school: believe in mother, God, and the friendship...
...swarthy, highly cultured Moors, and they had come to look upon dark skin as the mark of beauty. As a result, races intermarried freely. Some of Brazil's greatest statesmen, intellectuals and artists have had Negro blood. Says Brazil's famed Sociologist Gilberto Freyre: the Brazilian "has a certain fondness . . . for honoring differences...
...Magdalena's maiden voyage began uneventfully enough out of London. After a smooth South Atlantic crossing, the liner coasted down to Santos and Buenos Aires, picking up a cargo of Brazilian oranges and Argentine beef, then headed northeast for Rio and home. At 4:45 of a calm, cloudy morning last week, disaster intercepted the Magdalena
Married. Dom Joāo de Orléans e Bragança, 33, great-grandson of Brazil's last emperor, now a captain in the Brazilian air force; and Princess Fatima, 26, sister-in-law of Egypt's King Farouk; she for the second time; in Sintra, Portugal...