Word: itamaraty
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...bases, materials, and men in World War II, brought down the house when he said simply and directly: "And I'm here to say that we don't forget our friends when they have been friends in need." That night, there was a formal state dinner at Itamarati Palace. Over champagne, Truman cordially invited Dutra and his family to visit the U.S. Said Truman: "We have never had such a reception. ... I am tempted to come and run for mayor of Rio de Janeiro and I think I could be elected...
Black Ties. There were Argentine lunches, Panamanian drinks, and Mexican decoration ceremonies. There was the opera, with Gigli singing in La Tosca and tiaras sparkling from the boxes. One night Brazil's President Eurico Caspar Dutra gave a state dinner in the palm-lined patio of the neoclassic Itamarati Palace. While a company of 120-the men in black ties and the women in low-cut gowns-nibbled pheasant and sipped champagne, swans glided in a candlelit pool and ballet dancers whirled on a special stage. Ignoring the rain, the ladies seized a lifetime's chance and swept...
Guest List. The conference windup was all but lost in the fun. Delegates gathered at the fog-bound Quitandinha Hotel for one last session. That afternoon, in the soft-green-walled second-story "treaty room" of the Itamarati, they signed their names in the blue leather-bound volume entitled "Treaty of Rio de Janeiro." George Marshall arrived last and wrote his first initial so large that it had to be blotted before he could continue. Sol Bloom was barely prevented from signing for Brazil...
...Itamarati Palace itself, Foreign Office officials were too busy with details of President Truman's September visit to have even settled the hour of the conference's opening at the Quitandinha Hotel. Nor had places been found for delegates to stay. Secretary Marshall, with a Quitandinha suite, an office in the Rio Embassy and the promise of a house, was lucky. But delegates who looked forward to long Rio weekends would have to scramble for rooms...
...Itamarati, where he starts work every morning at 11, he has inherited the traditional policy of friendship for the U.S. It is one with which he has no quarrel. He does not share the cynicism of the unknown sage who once defined Brazil's foreign policy as "friendship with the U.S. because we have no alternative." He is as sincere in pursuing that policy as he is in his support of Pan-Americanism...