Word: fontoura
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...gleaming Copacabana Palace Hotel, one floor below ex-King Carol of Rumania, Surits looked out on the white sands of Copacabana Beach. Politely he said that it reminded him of Russia's Black Sea beaches. As soon as Brazilian Foreign Minister João Neves da Fontoura had loudly and lengthily denied his undiplomatic blurt to New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Joseph Newman ("Russia is the greatest danger to the world"), Surits presented his credentials at palm-shaded, swan-graced Palácio Itamaraty, the Foreign Office. Pint-sized Surits beamed at pint-sized Neves da Fontoura...