Word: negre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After blowing hot and cold for months over a barter deal with Russia-Brazilian cocoa for Russian oil-Brazil decided last week to say no. The backout was a victory for anti-Red advisers of President Juscelino Kubitschek, led by Foreign Minister Francisco Negrão de Lima...
Aligned against Negrão de Lima was a faction that included Kubitschek's kitchen-cabinet foreign-affairs adviser, pudgy Augusto Frederico Schmidt. Schmidt's clique insisted that Brazil accept Russia's repeated offers of trade and aid, largely to lever the U.S. into greater generosity. Last October the government announced it was trading 20,000 bags of cocoa for 60,000 tons of Soviet crude. But the Russian oil turned out to be the same type of paraffin-heavy crude that Brazil is already forced to export for lack of refining capacity...
...Negrão de Lima happily reported the deal was off. "We are not initiating any new commercial-much less political-relations with the Soviet Union," he said. "We are not doing business with Soviet Russia, and you can quote...
...months hard-pressed Dictator Francisco Franco has been feeding on the hope that he could somehow persuade Russia to return the $500 million in gold which the Spanish Republican government shipped off to Moscow in the early days of the civil war. When onetime Republican Finance Minister Juan Negrín died last winter in Paris, Franco came into possession of the Soviet receipts for the gold (TIME, Jan. 14), and Russia could no longer deny having got the money. But Radio Moscow last week dashed all of Franco's hopes. After depositing the money, said Radio Moscow...
...Russian Help. This month, in one of those outbursts of recriminations that occur in Mexico City's colony of Spanish ex-Loyalists, Indalecio Prieto stirred up the long-buried story of the gold hoard, accused his fellow exile, Juan Negrín, of complicity. This time, Franco's Spain picked up Prieto's accusations. In formal notes to the U.S., Britain and France, Franco's Foreign Minister protested against Russian use of the Spanish gold in European trade. Since the Russians have undoubtedly melted down the coins and removed the Spanish mint marks from the bullion...