Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever their politics, few Americans would dispute that, as an ambassador of good will, the plain man from Missouri has had few equals. Last week, unassuming Harry Truman was at his best in Brazil...
Paper Blizzards. After landing at Galeao airport, the presidential party was taken across the bay in a Brazilian naval launch. At the Touring Club dock, Harry Truman hopped out briskly, strode up the red-carpeted gangplank to greet Brazil's President Eurico Caspar Dutra and his wife "Dona Santinha." Sitting side by side, the two Presidents drove for six miles along the flag-lined streets between long lines of Brazilian soldiery. Cheering crowds lined every inch of the way. Blizzards of paper fell from the taller buildings. Standing up in the car, Harry Truman waved amiably to yells...
Then he left hurriedly for the trip back to Rio and the Missouri, where he was scheduled to receive 500 delegates and Brazilian notables for luncheon. In the harbor, the fog had closed down and a cold wind was blowing. Many of Brazil's gayest hats were bedraggled by the time the guests managed to jump from bobbing launches to the Missouri's gangway. Brazilians visibly regretted the lack of wine, but consoled themselves with huge amounts of American coffee...
...Orchids. While the Missouri's balky loudspeaker system alternately shrilled and roared, Brazil's Foreign Minister Raul Fernandes told Truman: "You moved the soul of Brazil, and the welcome you received represents the position you have won in the hearts of our people...
...spite of his chastening criticism, Dr. Tavares loves and believes in Brazil. "Brazil is the one thing I believe in," he says. He tells his readers of the west, where a League of Nations commission once said a population of 900,000,000 could support itself; of Volta Redonda, South America's biggest steel mill, and of the continent's fastest growing industrial city at São Paulo. Drawing on the studies of Brazil's social anthropologist, Gilberto Freyre, he shows that "there is less racial discrimination in Brazil than in any other country...