Word: itamaratys
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...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...
Fernandes' wrinkled parchment skin, his few wisps of grey hair, his stooped walk, belie his energy and drive. When he stands against a window in his second-floor office in Rio's ornate Itamarati Palace, it seems almost possible to see through his fragile frame. Yet Fernandes tackles a diplomatic fight with all the enthusiasm of a young attache...
...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...