Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peron & Co. had plotted in the same fashion against the government of Brazil, working through Dr. Raimundo Padilha, Fascist leader in hiding there. The objects: to undermine Brazil's pro-Allied Vargas; gradually to build an anti-U.S. bloc which would include not just a few nations but a whole hemisphere...
...Argentina vied to honor Brazil's new President Eurico Gaspar Dutra. Both sent distinguished representatives to his inaugural-the U.S., Fiorello H. LaGuardia; Argentina, Vice President Juan Pistarini. Both sent their best warships. On the sleek, British-built cruiser La Argentina (6,000 tons), President Dutra received the collar of San Martin. Aboard the mighty carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt (45,000 tons),he watched 75 warplanes roar into the air, but got no medal. Both the U.S. and Argentina scheduled-the same evening-lavish embassy receptions. President Dutra solved that problem by attending both, became the first Brazilian President...
...reception was a final triumph for Adolf A. Berle Jr., who resigned five days later as U.S. Ambassador. In his controversial year and eight days in Brazil, ex-Assistant Secretary of State Berle saw more of Brazil than had any U.S. Ambassador, worked energetically for planned Brazilian economic development, watched the critical transition from Vargas-bossed to popularly elected government. His crucially timed speech at Petropolis last September, delivered on State Department instructions, helped hold the line for free presidential elections. But Sumner Welles in the U.S. and Vargas supporters in Brazil denounced the speech as intervention, loosed a fierce...
...fact, was all for taking foreign observers along-a gesture of good will. State Secretary Byrnes approved and so did the House Naval Affairs Committee-so long as no details were disclosed. The Atomic Commission would consist of representatives of Russia, Great Britain, France, China, Australia, Poland, Mexico, Brazil, The Netherlands...
...work to make what they could no longer import. Argentines shipped fewer hides, turned them into finished leather goods themselves. Chileans proudly looked for the label Fabricación Chilena on their tires, even though the rubber and cotton material still had to be shipped in. In Brazil's São Paulo alone, 300 new firms grew up during one year, to make such former import standbys as cotton and wool yarns, rayon, rails, leather goods cellophane, ceramic and chemical products...