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...minutes past the scheduled hour, chunky Eurico Caspar Dutra, flanked by the conference chairman, Brazil's Foreign Minister Raul Fernandes (TiME, Aug. 4), inarched into the room. His opening address was short and dull. The President read it without a flicker of emphasis, shifting his pages from left hand to right as he finished with them. Delegates applauded politely...
Harried officials of Agencia Nacional, Brazil's official news agency, replied that the U.S. Army Signal Corps had been asked to set up enough radio transmitters to send all newsmen's copy. The correspondents were not appeased; they sent a petition of protest to President Dutra...
...daily loads of flour, oil, sugar and soap across the bridge. But Brazil and Argentina are South America's most powerful rivals, and many reasons of state had been found to delay the formal inaugural. Finally, it could be put off no longer. Said a bored Brazilian as Dutra winged south for the meeting: "I suppose somebody...
...visit his country since Getulio Vargas went to B.A. in 1935. Latin oratory was spilled. When the two Presidents yanked a string to unveil a commemorative plaque, up flew 1,500 Brazilian pigeons painted in the two countries' national colors. For Eva Duarte de Perón, Dutra had a whopping aquamarine brooch encrusted with diamonds...
...Talk. Afterwards, the two presidents crossed the river into Brazilian Uruguayana. At an old-fashioned residence of a Brazilian colonel, they withdrew with five top advisers for 2¼ hours' talk. Reporters who peeked around a curtain saw a cozy semicircle. Perón dominated the talk. Dutra, quiet by nature, weary and weighed down with Communist troubles at home (TIME, May 26), did little but listen. Besides, he still had to go 75 miles to Quarahy, for a second border meeting the next day with Uruguay's President Tomás Berreta...