Word: manh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salad for Brazilians. Lodged at the luxurious Copacabana Hotel, Rockefeller was immediately surrounded by Brazil's rulers, the closes productores, but insisted that he wanted to talk with labor leaders too. The press gave him a lusty welcome. Said Correio da Manhá: "The American continent cannot survive while one part is strong and prosperous and the other poor and weak. Nelson Rockefeller was one of the first to realize this truth." In a front-page editorial entitled simply "Nelson," Diario da Noite said: "He returns to encourage the development of our land resources in the generous and disinterested...
...tactics have set Brazilians on edge and stiffened the nation's previously tolerant temper against the Japanese. As police rounded up 27 leading terrorists in Sâo Paulo State, President Eurico Caspar Dutra last week ordered the deportation of 76 others. Said Rio's Correio da Manhâ: "We should not try to change their mentality-only their addresses." Correio's suggested new address: c/o Douglas MacArthur, Tokyo...
...Federal Police, was fired. His job was handed to Coriolano de Goes. As Police Chief of São Paulo, De Goes had machine-gunned a crowd of São Paulo students who plumped for representative government last November. Three were killed, 20 wounded. When Correio da Manhã, Rio de Janeiro daily, sneaked some criticism of the Goes appointment into its editorial columns, it was promptly slapped by the Government with a whopping fine...
Portuguese newspapers spoke out plainly. Diario de Manhā, organ of Portugal's sole Party of National Union, observed sadly that Portugal had always regarded the U.S. as "one of the last irreducible bulwarks defending certain principles of law and international morality," but that the new U.S. theory of hemisphere defense "opens the way to the most perilous adventures...
Concluded Diario de Manhā: "It is legitimate that nations like Portugal protest pretensions affecting their dignity and rights of national sovereignty, and affirm aloud before the world their will and right to resist any aggression, no matter where it comes from...