Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first press conference since Brazil went to war. He was like a man who has just married off the last of a dozen daughters. He told the press that cooperation between the U.S. and Brazil for the defense of the vulnerable hump had for a long time been closer than most people knew. But Brazil had not been pushed into the war by the U.S.; she had made her own choice. When someone repeated Axis radio threats to turn Brazil's Independence Day (Sept. 7) into São João Day (which Rio celebrates with fireworks), Aranha...
...largest of the Latin American republics in area and population and the richest in resources, coming on the heels of Mexico's declaration of war last May, must exercise a considerable influence upon the governments of the remaining Latin American countries and confirm them in their-policy of every closer cooperation with the United States...
Disparities. A friendship pact in 1941 marked a new and closer liaison between Portugal and Spain. Since then frequent conferences between Franco and Salazar may have led to military understandings. Present at most of them has been Spain's gadabout Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suñer. But Portugal, besides relying on British sea power for protection of colonies in Africa, India and the South Seas, has had friendship and trade pacts with Britain since the 17th Century. The Portuguese have also watched Brazil, which broke from the mother country in 1823, move toward war against...
...contributions to the United Nations, however, are political and geographic. Only 1,800 miles from Vichyfrench Dakar, the Brazilian hump provides a handy springboard for a possible future attack on that already half-hostile base. Because of its size and influence, belligerent Brazil elbows the whole South American continent closer to World War II. Already there are signs that Uruguay may follow Brazil's lead, that Chile may break relations with the Axis. This may help to balance the activities of Argentina, Brazil's chief rival for influence over smaller South American countries. Glumly neutral Argentina, though...
...poster has carried the punch of James Montgomery Flagg's recruiting poster of World War I depicting a persuasive Uncle Sam pointing a solemn finger at the U.S. and saying I WANT YOU FOR U.S. ARMY. Closer to it last week was a poster by veteran Saturday Evening Post Coverman Norman Rockwell. Created without benefit of a New Deal bureau, Artist Rockwell's machine gunner (see cut), whose wounds and exhausted cartridge belt cry aloud for assistance, was painted at the suggestion of Manhattan's Williams & Saylor Advertising Agency, for Army Ordnance. Like all good war posters...