Word: ernesto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Rios picked a new Cabinet. There had been loud demands from the left for the removal of Foreign Minister Ernesto Barros Jarpa, who opposed rupture with the Axis. He was no Nazi sympathizer himself, but he feared Axis attack. Foreign Minister Barros Jarpa was replaced by Chile's Ambassador to Uruguay Joaquin Fernandez, longtime diplomat and good friend of President Rios...
...miles it has lost since 1940, would just as soon take them from U.S. airlines as anybody else. German-run and German-controlled only nine months ago, Condor was nationalized after Pearl Harbor. But until the day Brazil went to war Condor's managing director was tall, bald Ernesto Hoelck, who speaks an excellent brand of German-accented Portuguese. So the U.S. kept Condor on the blacklist...
...people's man, Pedro Ernesto watched fearfully while the fascist Integralist Party waxed strong and bold under the nose of Vargas. Joining the socialistic Allianca Nacional Libertadora, Pedro Ernesto got wind of an army revolt it was planning and hurried over to Getulio to warn him. No traitor to the Allianca, Pedro Ernesto advised Vargas to nip its revolt in the bud by combining forces in a popular front. But fiercely anti-Communist Vargas smashed the revolt. Army bigwigs clamored for Pedro Ernesto's head...
This posed a problem for Getulio, who had a very soft spot in his heart for his oldtime friend. Besides, Pedro Ernesto had saved the leg of Senhora Vargas when it was crushed in an automobile accident and other surgeons wanted to amputate. Vargas' Minister of War ordered Pedro Ernesto imprisoned, but he was taken to the Military Police Hospital instead of the jail. When it was announced that visitors might call on Pedro Ernesto, a long line of friends queued up at the hospital's door; next to a bemedaled general stood an old Negro woman from...
Five years ago Pedro Ernesto was set free. Exiled temporarily to Minas Geraes, he returned, when things quieted down, to Rio and his own hospital and patients. He shunned politics. On his birthday last year the Candelaria church, Rio's biggest and smartest, sang masses for Pedro Ernesto at each of its nine altars. Today, in the vestibule of the Municipal Hall, stands a bust of him which slum mothers point out to their children, telling them that all they paid for Pedro Ernesto's services were small gifts of bananas...