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...Luis's elected successor, in Washington last June, had every reason to want and expect him to take office this month. On the strength of Secretary Washington's reports and the direct request of the Brazilian Ambassador in Washington, President Hoover last week clapped down an arms embargo against the revolutionists. Penalty for its violation: $10,000 fine, two years in gaol...
...State Department the rebels were described as little better than bandits. Munitions and arms including a dozen airplanes were shipped to the support of the Brazilian federals. Statesman Stimson explained that, though this was the first time the U. S. had applied an embargo to a South American revolution, it was no precedent because the same method had been used before under international law to squelch rebellions in Mexico, Central America, China...
Back to Rio from Paris last week hurried Ambassador Morgan. Two days after his arrival, less than 48 hours after the Washington embargo, the Washington Luis government fell with a resounding thump which jarred official nerves in Washington (see p. 24). But it was not too late for Ambassador Morgan to salvage some U. S. goodwill (U. S. trade with Brazil: $316,000,000 per year). He cabled Statesman Stimson...
...jawed men who said they were ex-U. S. Marines were turned away by the Brazilian Consulate General. But another species of U. S. help was welcome. Quiet dickering for bombing planes began. During the week it was frequently reported that President Hoover had no intention of laying an embargo on exports of such weapons to Brazil...
Muddled Geography. What the original embargo evidence was remained an official secret. But it was understood that Mr. Lowman had acted on: 1) a general Soviet order for use of convicts in the lumber industry; 2) affidavits of escaped prisoners from a lumber camp. It developed that the "escaped prisoners" were not from the pulpwood forests along the Dvina River, but from the island of Silesky, 1,200 mi. away, where no export timber is cut. Mr. Lowman, it appeared, had never studied Russia's geography very closely...