Word: dutra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brazil last week won a heat in its race with Argentina for a share in the cattle, oil and forest riches of landlocked Bolivia. With a 30-man entourage, Brazil's President Eurico Caspar Dutra flew to the Bolivian town of San José de Chiquitos for a meeting with Bolivia's President Enrique Hertzog. The occasion: the opening of a Brazilian-built railroad connecting San José with Corumbá, Brazil-part of a system that will eventually stretch 2,500 miles across the continent from Santos to the Chilean port of Arica...
After kneeling together before a 300-year-old altar in San José, the Presidents got off some conventional remarks, then flew to Corumba, where they swapped compliments and gifts. One sharp-eyed observer noted that Hertzog's gift to Dutra, a medallion engraved with the likenesses of the two Presidents, came in a case stamped "made in Buenos Aires...
...major general when he left Rio, Dutra found himself a full general when he returned. Under a new military law, he was entitled to the promotion because of his World War II service as Minister of War, but had modestly refrained from signing his own promotion papers. Acting President Nereu Ramos took care of that chore in his chief's absence...
BEFORE HE LEFT FOR BOLIVIA, Dutra sent regrets to the invitation of President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla (just back from a junket through Chile's northern provinces) to visit Chile. It was impossible because Brazil is playing host this week to Uruguay's President Luis Batlle Berres...
...Brazil, where the big, 130,000-strong Communist Party is already outlawed, President Eurico Dutra asked his Congress to 1) hand civilian violators of national security over to military courts; 2) require loyalty pledges from all government employees. A wave of Communist-led strikes, railway sabotage and an explosion in a military arsenal that killed 32 had Brazilians worried. But in the last fortnight, police had rounded up 300 comrades, including the biting & scratching sister of Leader Luis Carlos Prestes. Brother Luis, who had been in hiding for months, was reported to have escaped to neighboring Uruguay...