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...Brazilian airliner startlingly painted with Arabic characters landed at Rio's Galeao field one day last week. "Special for President Chamoun," said the inscription, and on board was the chief executive of Lebanon, first Middle Eastern head of state ever to visit South America. In the welcoming committee surrounding President Getulio Vargas, Camille Chamoun noted six Congressmen of Lebanese descent. Said he, "I already feel at home...
President Chamoun was aware that there are 250,000 Lebanese in Brazil. Smaller than Connecticut, the republic at the eastern end of the Mediterranean is so densely populated (1,250,000) that a nearly equal number have moved out and now live abroad. Some 500,000 are in the U.S., many in Brooklyn. Explained a Foreign Office official in Beirut: "Our people have been traders since the dawn of history, and they can sniff a business opportunity a long way off." Some Lebanese opportunity-sniffers in Brazil have been strikingly successful...
With Lebanese-Brazilian links such as these, Chamoun's visit was sure to be friendly. He received the Grand Collar of the Southern Cross from Vargas, signed a "most-favored-nation" commercial treaty, addressed Congress. Everywhere he plugged Arab-Latin American solidarity in the United Nations...
Respect & Death. Even by Middle East standards, the campaign was rough. In the capital city of Beirut, ten people were wounded by a bomb. In Akkar, Mohammed's convoy was ambushed, and two men were shot. In alarm, President Camille Chamoun summoned the north Lebanon candidates to his mansion, to warn them that such violence must not take place on election...