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...Howard Cossel, who made a pile verbally sparring with Clay (and losing most of the time) told the champ he liked him better this past year or so because he wasn't so loud. Somehow it's wrong to be loud and write poetry and predict the knockout round and tell off sportswriters and beat Sonny Liston so quickly and beat Ernie Terrell so brutally and become a Black Muslim and apply for exemption from the U.S. Army because you're a Muslim minister and because you object to the war in Vietnam. But it's worse, far worse...
German Cultural Attache von Cossel once said: "Góes Monteiro [then Chief of Staff] may some day change his politics, but Dutra will always be a Nazi." In 1940, as a climax to a large purchase of German arms, Dutra accepted the Grand Cross of the German Eagle. The Japanese Embassy filled the Dutra home with a set of bright Nipponese furniture. General Dutra's admiration for the professional German Army increased as the Nazis swept to "Victory in the West." But the Nazi stalemate in Russia and the growing Allied strength paled his ardor...
...Cossel, who as trainer of the Integralistas, skipped following their abortive coup against the Government, but immediately returned as a "Cultural Attache " of the German Embassy. He has disseminated aggressive culture among Brazil's 750,000 Germans, formed storm battalions to beat up those who would not go Nazi, smuggled arms and ammunition, distributed the usual films and literature...
Further cultural activities of Cossel include obtaining German decorations for War Minister Enrico Caspar Dutra and Army Chief of Staff General Pedro Aurelio de Goes Monteiro. Visiting Berlin last year, General Goes Monteiro toasted "the beautiful principles" of Naziism...
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