Word: brazilianizing
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Japanese officers disguised as fishermen had plotted to seize São Paulo State. Brazilian forces would be attacked by 25,000 local, secretly trained Japanese troops using anti-tank guns and artillery imported as agricultural machinery. On farms and in fishing villages, air and submarine bases were ready for a supporting invasion. Among the Jap dentists in Brazil was a General. Among the tomato growers was a onetime Jap Finance Minister...
...Department got most of this tale from the Brazilian-born son of a Japanese. Whether or not the tale had grown taller in the telling, Brazil obviously had good reason to be careful about her 186,000 Japanese inhabitants...
Repercussions. Added to recent Brazilian losses (TIME, March 23), these torpedoings hiked sinkings among Latin-American seagoing ships to 29,874 tons. U.S. ship losses were much greater but, small as the Latin-American losses were, they tightened a shortage already desperately tight...
There are no commercial networks in Brazil. But eleven independent stations in Rio and eleven in São Paulo are linked by telephone wires, and all 89 Brazilian stations can pick up and rebroadcast programs transmitted over Brazil's powerful short-wave stations. For years all stations have been required either to go off the air or to take the Government program, Hora do Brasil (sometimes known among jesting Brasileiros as the Hora do Silencio...
...allowed to loot German stores, manhandle German nationals. One mob piled the contents of a German-owned bookstore in the street, kindling them with the cry: "Hitler isn't the only one who can burn books." Where steel shutters halted the mob, it demanded the hoisting of the Brazilian flag. Police intervention was languid. When in the late afternoon a downpour scattered the crowds, nervous Brazilians quoted their old saw: "Deus é Brasileiro" (God is Brazilian). But next day, although further rioting in Rio was stopped, provincial mobs were permitted a similar anti-Axis field...