Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year after V-J day some Japs in Brazil were still convinced that Japan was undefeated. They had been told so by swindling fellow countrymen with a reason. The swindlers were still selling Java and Philippine victory stocks to gullible compatriots. They were using terrorism to keep the myth and their market alive...
...great new planes, arranging for bases, planning schedules. But this week the U.S. had still to get them the necessary permission from many of the countries over which they would have to fly. Still posted against regular peacetime airline traffic were such key areas as Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, China, India, Russia...
...stands U.S. air policy is set and controlled by five separate, sometimes conflicting agencies-the CAB, the U.S. Maritime Commission, and the Interstate Commerce Commission, Federal Communications Commission, Department of State. Most recent sample of the boners that result: CAB last week blandly certified South Atlantic routes via Brazil to Pan American Airways, Inc. while the State Department was still pressing an uphill fight in Rio de Janeiro for a Brazilian agreement...
...mark of the new friendship, Havana's Communist Hoy lashed out at democratic Dominican exiles as "reactionary adventurers." Said one such adventurer, who remembered previous pacts between Stalinists and Latin American dictators: "First Nicaragua, then Brazil and now Dominica. Lombardo Toledano and his Communist friends have become the technicians for the salvaging of Latin American tyrannies...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower flew north from Brazil trailing clouds of exaltation and exhaustion. In Rio the fancy hails & farewells (variously involving champagne toasts, oratory, autographs, roast pig and avocado ice cream) had reached their fanciest in the Constituent Assembly. There, while fellow legislators cheered, Dr. Octavio Mangabeira polished off an oratorical tribute by kissing Ike's hand. Next day one legislator dared to deplore the gesture, promptly threw the assembly into a shocked uproar. Finally, the members took a vote, approved Dr. Mangabeira's "exceptional eloquence" unanimously-even including the objector...