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...Brazil, Axis propaganda mills work day & night. Three years ago, when he established his New State. Brazil's President Getulio Vargas found that his country had 1,200 German schools teaching exclusively in German, that 500 of his new Army conscripts spoke no Portuguese (Brazil's national language). Thereupon President Vargas decreed that every Brazilian school must employ Brazilian teachers, must teach Portuguese. Because they disobeyed his decree, he promptly closed 200 German schools, 60 Japanese. But the Japs were not so easily squelched...
Chunky Bonaparte-browed President-Dictator Getulio Dornelles Vargas last week came down to earth after 10,000 miles of air travel to watch 40,000 French-trained Brazilian troops in war games. Keeping mum on whether a U. S. or a German military mission would replace the French, whose term expired Sept. 1, he announced praisefully that Brazil's 80,000-man Army was adequate to protect her. War Minister General G. Eurica Dutra beamed, but he knew as well as President Vargas that Brazil's chief value to continental defense lies not in its Army...
Five months ago Brazil's sharp-eyed little President Getulio Dornelles Vargas started clipping the wings of the German Condor airline. First snip came in June when he refused a petition of the Rio-São Paulo branch to keep two of its Nazi pilots on the payroll. Last month he cut a little closer, canceled a contract for service be tween Belem (formerly Pará), at the mouth of the Amazon, and the French Guiana frontier. Three weeks ago he brought out his shears again, ousted all foreign pilots, whether naturalized or not, from Brazilian airlines...
Early in 1940 U. S. Steel Corp. finally drew up a plan for a $35,000,000 project which caused impetuous little President Getulio Vargas to announce that the U. S. and Brazil were at last ready to collaborate. But inability to agree on property rights led U. S. Steel to break off negotiations. Yankee imperialism was damned in Latin metaphor and Japan was added to those desiring to bundle up with Brazil...
...Harvard delegation was received by the President of Brazil, Getulio Vargas and his Secretary of State, Aranha. Visits were also made to the Finance Ministry and the Bank of Brazil...