Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Visitor from the South. Famed Host Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil's most accomplished diplomat, would not be a delegate -he could never have played second fiddle to his rival, Foreign Minister Raul Fernandes-but he was sure to get in diplomatic licks with small get-togethers for Marshall, Vandenberg and other bigwigs...
...trip had gone over big; U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snyder liked Brazil and Brazil liked him. He had come to talk business in a country where U.S. investments of $611,000,000 are second only to Britain's. He had a chance to see, in a plant such as Volta Redonda (steel), the sort of thing for which the U.S. had put up Export-Import cash. When he talked, he talked straight. Brazilians...
...world," said Snyder, "but as the country that has the greatest internal debt." Brazilians had never thought of that. "The U.S.," he continued, "did not grow solely from within-but . . . through the introduction of additional manpower, of additional technical knowledge, and by the addition of foreign capital. . . . Brazil has a great opportunity for future development . . . if it can learn to accept foreign capital as a partner...
...only the Communists screamed. "Yankee imperialism," they cried. Snyder had come "to make an inventory of our riches," to "subject our country to Wall Street." Nobody paid much attention. So far as most Brazilians could see, U.S. capital was no longer a one-way gouge; it worked for Brazil as well as the investors in the U.S. Economic partnership might come next...
...hopes for the 1826 Pan American Congress, like many of his dreams, came to little in his lifetime. No envoys appeared from Argentina, Brazil, Chile or Bolivia; of two U.S. representatives, one died before he got to Panama, the other arrived too late. But a pattern was set for future meetings of American republics. Bolívar had other disappointments. Venezuela joined Ecuador and Colombia in withdrawing from the federated Great Colombia he had built. His famous general, Antonio José Sucre, was assassinated. He wrote in despair: "Those who worked for South American freedom have plowed...