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...Minister Oswaldo Aranha last week rollicked through his first press conference since Brazil went to war. He was like a man who has just married off the last of a dozen daughters. He told the press that cooperation between the U.S. and Brazil for the defense of the vulnerable hump had for a long time been closer than most people knew. But Brazil had not been pushed into the war by the U.S.; she had made her own choice. When someone repeated Axis radio threats to turn Brazil's Independence Day (Sept. 7) into...
Already thousands of Axis nationals had been crowded into Brazilian jails or were swinging picks and shovels in labor camps; all Germans were being moved from the hump, where sea and air patrols had been stepped up. Seventeen Axis ships had been seized and three of Brazil's largest Axis-owned banks-with assets of nearly $35,000,000-had been closed by presidential decree. A final step in severing the Brazilian Condor airline from German-owned Lufthansa had been taken: its property now belonged to the Government...
...from his policy of militant defense. And he may have had good reasons: Axis submarines might have concentrated on Brazilian ships intentionally to provoke war and thus to draw bigger U.S. forces into the South Atlantic; Axis strategists might be trying to cut communications between Brazil's vulnerable hump and the south, preparatory to an attack from Dakar...
Credits & Debits. The biggest Brazilian contributions to the United Nations, however, are political and geographic. Only 1,800 miles from Vichyfrench Dakar, the Brazilian hump provides a handy springboard for a possible future attack on that already half-hostile base. Because of its size and influence, belligerent Brazil elbows the whole South American continent closer to World War II. Already there are signs that Uruguay may follow Brazil's lead, that Chile may break relations with the Axis. This may help to balance the activities of Argentina, Brazil's chief rival for influence over smaller South American countries...
Typical of the converted plants was the Moller pipe-organ factory. Not a few of its hands were hired by old Mathias Peter Moller Sr. 30 and 40 years ago. Now they fashion wooden training-plane wings, finished exquisitely as only sparse-thatched, hump-shouldered cabinetmakers can finish them...