Word: brazilianizing
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...Brazil: Pedro Ernesto Baptista. Years ago, when Getulio Vargas began his revolution, Pedro Ernesto, a surgeon, used his own hospital's ambulance to run machine guns to the Vargas contingents massing at Minas Geraes. When Vargas became President, Pedro Ernesto became prefect of the Federal District (Brazilian equivalent of mayor of the District of Columbia). This was a job which gave Pedro Ernesto the chance he had wanted: he labored to improve conditions in Rio's slums; he built schools, free clinics, city hospitals...
...Brazilian Government angrily announced last week that U-boats had sunk five more Brazilian ships, one loaded with troops, off the coast between Bahia and the state of Sergipe. Though 13 other Brazilian vessels had been sunk previously, these were the first in coastal trade. The Vargas Government, denouncing the Axis, promised the crimes would not go unpunished...
Since last Saturday, the American press has rejoiced over the entry of Brazil into the war. Nearly every newspaper in the nation has pointed out the importance of such a declaration by a South American country, and the Sunday supplements have been crammed with statistics on the Brazilian Army and Navy. Actually it would appear that the immediate military effects of Brazilian belligerency are negligible compared with the long run effects of Pan-American unity...
...Orson Welles prepared to return to Hollywood from Brazil (TIME, July 20) the following ad, signed by RKO's Brazilian manager, appeared in Rio de Janeiro papers: "RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., established in New York, U.S.A., hereby declares it will not assume responsibility for any acts committed by Orson Welles in Brazil...
Reason for this turnabout: it is safer and easier to ship coffee 1,600 miles from Colombia to New Orleans than 6,000 miles up the Atlantic from Rio. But Brazil will not be the loser. Brazilian bigwigs in São Paulo last week announced that the Good-Neighborly U.S. would buy up all Brazilian coffee not shipped by September's end. That will give Brazil a credit of over $25,000,000 on U.S. banks and give the U.S. a credit of perhaps 2,000,000 bags in Brazilian warehouses...