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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...
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...