Word: oswaldo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brazil's dictatorship began tightening the screws. Fortnight ago Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha was to have been honored by the Society of the Friends of America. Police arrived before the ceremony, padlocked the Society's clubrooms. Since then Aranha had been absent from his desk at the Foreign Ministry. Brazilians guessed that he had submitted his resignation...
...evening he came home from work, tired and late. He ate his black beans and went to bed. Soon Ricardina started the service. In a turban and bright red robes, she screamed incantations before the "pegi" (altar) to "Xango" (God of Thunder). The holy uproar swelled. At the climax, Oswaldo Candido da Silva, the "Pae de Santo" (High Priest) beheaded a squawking chicken.* The congregation made suitable noises...
Under the auspices of the Brazilian Government and Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha, Winchell whirled about the country. He talked with big & little Brazilians, to U.S. officers and men stationed in Brazil. In São Paulo's big industrial plants he made brief translated talks to the workers. His biggest official hit was at a press banquet in Rio when he raised his cup of coffee to the level of his Brazilian host's cup and gave this toast: "Never above you-never beneath you-always beside you." The Brazilian press adopted the toast as a slogan...
...political victory was partly, of course, in the bolstered spirits of allies and friends. Britain was jubilant. Even though Russia had hoped for a direct stab in the Nazi back, Russian opinion steadily warmed. Cried the Chinese press: "The turning point has been reached." Brazil's Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha declared: "We will soon emerge into a better world...
...third of Brazil's great triumvirate (the others: President Getulio Vargas, Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha), Goes Monteiro was a leader, with Vargas and Aranha, of the 1930 revolution. In 1931 he was appointed Minister of War. He became Brazil's Chief of Staff in 1937. His successor, General Eduardo Guedes Alcoforado, is neither so astute nor so politically ambitious as Goes Monteiro. The Brazilian Army, which wants to fight, and the increasingly belligerent Brazilian people hoped that General Alcoforado would lead them soon, somewhere, into contact with the Axis, and that he would be as good a soldier...