Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fully an hour before Harry Truman tumbled out of bed at his usual 6 a.m., an earlier bird in the same nest had beaten him to it. In the stillness of Blair House, another President, Brazil's Eurico Caspar Dutra, also true to his old-soldier habit, had already shaved and breakfasted. Coming down stairs later, Harry Truman invited his overnight guest along on his regular morning stroll. Long before the high priests of protocol were up to bother them, the two Presidents ambled leisurely in the capital's cool, clear morning...
...slices from a seven-tier cake prepared in honor of Dutra's 64th birthday (see cut). When they got down to more serious talk, the two Presidents agreed to begin negotiating a treaty to stimulate foreign private investment and U.S. technical assistance for Brazil. In flowery Portuguese, Dutra assured a joint session of Congress of Brazil's enduring friendship. When the Presidents parted, Eurico Dutra handed out his bread & butter gifts: for President Truman, a silver cigarette case, and for Bess Truman, a handful of Brazilian semiprecious stones...
...died in Germany while on a government mission, was a woman whose piety and good works later endeared her to Brazilians as "Dona Santinha"-the little saint. She also burned with ambition for her husband. At her urging, Dutra returned to his books and won an appointment to Brazil's General Staff School, where he hung up a scholastic record unequaled before or since...
...Order & Progress." As an army officer, Dutra was part of an institution which has occupied a peculiar position in Brazilian politics. The army has always identified itself with the motto on Brazil's flag: "Order and Progress." This has meant, by & large, an affinity for the democracy which has characterized the country's modern history. It was the army which took over the republican movement from the disgruntled ex-slaveholders and overthrew Dom Pedro II in 1889. The first two Presidents under the republic's U.S.-patterned constitution were army officers. After that, under a long line...
Ultimately, Vargas made the mistake of underestimating the closemouthed Dutra. In 1945, when Brazil was growing restless under the dictatorship...