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Already thousands of Axis nationals had been crowded into Brazilian jails or were swinging picks and shovels in labor camps; all Germans were being moved from the hump, where sea and air patrols had been stepped up. Seventeen Axis ships had been seized and three of Brazil's largest Axis-owned banks-with assets of nearly $35,000,000-had been closed by presidential decree. A final step in severing the Brazilian Condor airline from German-owned Lufthansa had been taken: its property now belonged to the Government...
...staff (see cut) includes Deputy Chief of Staff Colonel Carlos Brazil, Colonel Vasco Secco of the Joint Brazil-U.S. Air Commission, Lieut. Colonel Raimundo Aboim, Lieut. Colonel Loyla Daher, Lieut. Colonel Carlos Coelho and Aviation Major Adil de Oliveira. The navy was augmented by six warships, built in Brazilian shipyards for Great Britain and now returned by Britain to its new ally. To help Brazil tune up its war program, U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery returned to Rio from a vacation in the U.S. with prospective solutions for prickly Brazilian problems...
Already the radio had spread the news to the Brazilian people and they chattered in sidewalk cafes, discussing who among them might volunteer, sizing up the part South America's biggest nation might play in World...
...been helping Brazil recondition its antiquated navy. It has two 19,000-ton battleships, built in 1908 and 1909 but now modernized, two cruisers of the same vintage, nine destroyers, four comparatively modern Italian-built submarines, eight minelayers, two minesweepers, some 15 auxiliaries. For the last few months the Brazilian Navy has quietly done yeoman service with U.S. South Atlantic convoys...
Credits & Debits. The biggest Brazilian contributions to the United Nations, however, are political and geographic. Only 1,800 miles from Vichyfrench Dakar, the Brazilian hump provides a handy springboard for a possible future attack on that already half-hostile base. Because of its size and influence, belligerent Brazil elbows the whole South American continent closer to World War II. Already there are signs that Uruguay may follow Brazil's lead, that Chile may break relations with the Axis. This may help to balance the activities of Argentina, Brazil's chief rival for influence over smaller South American countries...