Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...urgent had been the summons that Jacob Surits, suave, goateed Soviet Ambassador to Brazil, remembered only after boarding the plane that he had to be in Rio for the big Embassy reception on Nov. 7. At Belém he turned back for Rio, set off again for the U.S. after the party. His mission, like that of other Soviet diplomats in Latin America*: to get orders from Foreign Minister Molotov. For Molotov it was a chance to take stock of the first year and a half of the new Stalinist line in Latin America...
Corn-Hog Program. Henry Wallace once told him that an acre of Iowa hybrid corn yielded far more than ordinary corn, and Nelson Rockefeller never forgot. This week he was to sign his first commercial contract with Brazil's only hybrid producer, Agroceres Limited of São Paulo. It would call for a minority investment of $200,000, and seed loans to the company, which would sell hybrid seed corn to farmers, and to other companies that wished to start production...
...growing venture was already under way. Last month Rockefeller sent two experts to Brazil with 250,000 cubic centimeters of vaccine to combat hog cholera. Rockefeller will subscribe $200,000 to the project, which will probably include a demonstration farm near São Paulo, but Brazilians will be invited to put up most of the money...
...still a question whether Brazil's big farmers would be willing to follow Nelson Rockefeller's gleam. And would Brazilian capitalists be attracted by anything but exorbitant profits? Still, a little success would go a long way in big, backward Brazil. And such a commercially helpful hand would be a potent implement to U.S. foreign policy...
When Austrian-born Biographer Stefan Zweig committed suicide (together with his wife) in Brazil almost five years ago, he had been working on Balzac for a decade, referred to it as "the large Balzac" that was to become his magnum opus. Now published, his passionately sympathetic portrait of the prolific French novelist is clearly handicapped by the sudden death of its author...