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...what Jews do we mean? . . . You will perhaps be surprised [the Assembly was] to hear that there are a large number of people living ... on our [northwestern] borders, who claim descent from Israel . . . something like, I should think, between 20 to 30 million people." Said tired Assembly President Dr. Oswaldo Aranha at last: "I am sure the eminent jurist who is the Indian representative knows what I mean when I refer to flatus vocis, which scholars use when they want to refer to people who are talking too much about nothing...
This week the delegates of 55 nations moved in, swiftly elected Brazil's tall, grey Dr. Oswaldo Aranha president of their special session and, without formality, buckled down to the Palestine question...
...Manhattan, Brazil's magnetic, dyspeptic Oswaldo Aranha breathed easier and ate better. After scrutinizing 50 X-ray plates, specialists had found no trace of the ailment which has been troubling the former Ambassador to Washington. Aranha got the news in the nick of time. This week he is taking on a strenuous job: Brazilian delegate to the U.N. Security Council. During March, he will be the council's president...
Silver-maned ex-Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha stirred up the already turbulent presidential election campaign with a story that had Brazil by the ears. Two years ago, related soft-spoken Aranha, General Eurico Caspar Dutra conspired to overthrow President Getulio Vargas. (Current point of the story: Dutra is a candidate for the Presidency in Brazil's December national election, and Vargas is ostensibly supporting him.) The plot was nipped by Vargas before the coup could be executed, Aranha said...
...where Candidate Dutra denied all, the newspapers played the story to the hilt. But, editorially, the press took the revelation with a grain of salt. Said the Government-owned A Noite: "Oswaldo Aranha, tired of making history, is now inclined to narrate history, and because of the fire of his temperament and the luxury of his imagination, places himself in the center of the stage...