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Paper Blizzards. After landing at Galeao airport, the presidential party was taken across the bay in a Brazilian naval launch. At the Touring Club dock, Harry Truman hopped out briskly, strode up the red-carpeted gangplank to greet Brazil's President Eurico Caspar Dutra and his wife "Dona Santinha." Sitting side by side, the two Presidents drove for six miles along the flag-lined streets between long lines of Brazilian soldiery. Cheering crowds lined every inch of the way. Blizzards of paper fell from the taller buildings. Standing up in the car, Harry Truman waved amiably to yells...
...brought down the house when he said simply and directly: "And I'm here to say that we don't forget our friends when they have been friends in need." That night, there was a formal state dinner at Itamarati Palace. Over champagne, Truman cordially invited Dutra and his family to visit the U.S. Said Truman: "We have never had such a reception. ... I am tempted to come and run for mayor of Rio de Janeiro and I think I could be elected...
Black Ties. There were Argentine lunches, Panamanian drinks, and Mexican decoration ceremonies. There was the opera, with Gigli singing in La Tosca and tiaras sparkling from the boxes. One night Brazil's President Eurico Caspar Dutra gave a state dinner in the palm-lined patio of the neoclassic Itamarati Palace. While a company of 120-the men in black ties and the women in low-cut gowns-nibbled pheasant and sipped champagne, swans glided in a candlelit pool and ballet dancers whirled on a special stage. Ignoring the rain, the ladies seized a lifetime's chance and swept...
...deliver this week at the closing session of Rio's Inter-American Defense Conference and the joint session of the Brazilian Congress, and get set for a round of official festivities unmatched in Brazilian history (see LATIN AMERICA). At the request of Brazilian President Eurico Gaspar Dutra, he would extend his stay from five to seven days, to help celebrate Brazil's 125th Independence Day. The big fiesta would be a pleasure for Harry Truman, who always has a wonderful time and does a wonderful good-will job on trips abroad...
...Liking. The Secretary got home for a 2 o'clock lunch and a quiet 7:30 dinner. For exactly one hour after dinner, unless there were guests, he played Chinese checkers with Mrs. Marshall.*Then he retired. At week's end he lunched in Rio with President Dutra. Another day he turned up unexpectedly at a Quitandinha horse show named in his honor "The General Marshall Trials." Mrs. Marshall bought him a bag of popcorn. He handed it right down to two small boys who had been staring at Irm for all they were worth from beneath...