Word: dutra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mother, God & the U.S." This week, for the first time since Dom Pedro's visit, another Brazilian chief of state was due in the U.S. During his ten-day stay, President Eurico Caspar Dutra, accompanied by his son António João Dutra, his daughter-in-law, and his naval aide Raul Reis, will be the guest of Harry Truman, whom he entertained in Rio in 1947. He will address a joint session of Congress, lay a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, spend three days in Manhattan, and fly south to inspect...
...Dutra comes to the U.S. as President of a nation whose friendly relations with the U.S. go back to 1789, when Thomas Jefferson met a group of young Brazilian students in Paris and encouraged their dreams of independence. As a Brazilian foreign officer put it: "We are taught three things in school: believe in mother, God, and the friendship...
Friendship was slightly strained in the early part of World War II when many Brazilians, among them Dutra (then Minister of War), were so impressed by the Nazi war machine that they were accused of being pro-Nazi. They shucked such views after Pearl Harbor and for the rest of the war, as in World War I, Brazil stood with...
...Getulio's time. Getulio himself has made no move. Yet he is so widely discussed for the 1950 presidential elections that most political maneuvers in Brazil lately have had one theme: stop Getulio. To further that end by bolstering his own sagging prestige, President Eurico Caspar Dutra recently announced plans for a visit...
Rockefeller's technicians are out to sell their skilled services and teach Brazilians U.S. know-how. They like to point out that, however small its beginnings, their operation dovetails perfectly with President Dutra's giant five-year plan for national development. Says one: "What we are trying to do is to encourage the investment of Brazilian capital in companies that not only will show a profit but will assist in the economic and social development of Brazil...