Word: kubitscheks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower got his first chance last week to mend some of the damage done to U.S.-Latin American relations by the attacks on Vice President Richard Nixon. In a letter to Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek, Ike suggested "that our two governments should consult together as soon as possible with a view to approaching other members of the Pan-American community, and starting promptly on measures that would produce throughout the continent a reaffirmation of devotion to Pan-Americanism and better planning in promoting the common interests of our several countries...
...words, in answer to a Kubitschek letter (TIME, June 16) saying that "something must be done," were delivered in Rio by Roy Rubottom, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. After he delivered the note, Rubottom talked privately in Kubitschek's office for 95 minutes, continued over a filet mignon luncheon in the palace dining room. The two set a time-the week of Aug. 4-for a Brazilian visit by Secretary of State Dulles, and agreed to the idea of a conference of the Americas' foreign ministers, possibly in Bogota, where Colombian President-elect Alberto Lleras...
Something Done. Last week Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek echoed Munñoz' thesis in a letter to Ike. The language was that of diplomacy, but the meaning was plain: "The widespread reaction of aversion on the part of the governments and of public opinion in the very nations in which occurred these reprovable acts against the serene and courageous person of the Vice President constitutes a proof that such demonstrations proceeded from a factious minority. Nonetheless, it would be hardly feasible to conceal the fact that, before world public opinion, the ideal of Pan American unity...
...Gerais. In Rio Grande do Norte, Carlos Cabras, who has been in charge of building a long-range irrigation project for the past two years, confessed that $1,000,000 had been looted and said part of it had gone for payoffs to a Senator and two Deputies in Kubitschek's own party...
Though he apparently cannot stop corruption, Kubitschek has made his relief effort an all-out try. The government has appropriated $15 million and plans to add another $30 million, or a total of 5% of the budget. This will keep most of the flagelados alive until December. If the drought follows its historic pattern, the first crops will then begin to bloom; the refugees will trek back and enjoy a few fat years until the hot, dry wind starts up again...