Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frontier Town. Brazil-born son of a British missionary, Dr. Jim settled in Anapolis, he says, "because it just couldn't go any place but forward." It was a junction point for mule trains then, had "only two simple streets and a dozen houses." Fanstone was the first to practice surgery in the region; until then, appendicitis was known as "knotted bowels" and you "either got well or died by yourself." He brought in the first X-ray machine, the first elevator; his six-story hospital was the first skyscraper...
This prospect brought no joy to Brazilian diplomats, whose nation has long been the fair-haired hemispheric boy of U.S. military planning. The U.S. had no intention of abandoning so old and strategically located a friend as Brazil. But planners in the Pentagon, thinking in terms of securing the U.S.'s southern flank, figured that Argentina is the most powerful nation in Latin America, and that Washington would do well to be on the good side of its army leaders...
...Britain, France, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Brazil, The Netherlands and Italy (where the Doxa pollsters called the Communist vote within 4% a fortnight...
...along with Chile, Brazil and Peru, had taken the lead in calling for common defense against international Communism. No nation opposed the resolution last week, but Mexico, Venezuela and Guatemala wanted it broadened to include all totalitarianism. Said Venezuela's Rómulo Betancourt: "Because Communist ideas inspire against peace and security we support the resolution, but we also want to condemn the existence of other types of dictatorships which are an equal menace...
...Brazil, where the big, 130,000-strong Communist Party is already outlawed, President Eurico Dutra asked his Congress to 1) hand civilian violators of national security over to military courts; 2) require loyalty pledges from all government employees. A wave of Communist-led strikes, railway sabotage and an explosion in a military arsenal that killed 32 had Brazilians worried. But in the last fortnight, police had rounded up 300 comrades, including the biting & scratching sister of Leader Luis Carlos Prestes. Brother Luis, who had been in hiding for months, was reported to have escaped to neighboring Uruguay...