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...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...
Brazil's Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha last week rollicked through his first press conference since Brazil went to war. He was like a man who has just married off the last of a dozen daughters. He told the press that cooperation between the U.S. and Brazil for the defense of the vulnerable hump had for a long time been closer than most people knew. But Brazil had not been pushed into the war by the U.S.; she had made her own choice. When someone repeated Axis radio threats to turn Brazil's Independence Day (Sept. 7) into...
...above Rio's harbor. But by day the streets looked half-deserted. Women were joining the Brazilian Assistance Legion, organized last week by Senhora Darcy Vargas, the President's wife; men were lining up to volunteer for the army. Two new recruits were Euclydes Aranha and Oswaldo Aranha Jr., sons of Brazil's great & good Foreign Minister...
...late the night of adjournment the Peru-Ecuador border question, which had never been on the agenda but had delayed the conference windup for 24 hours (and made all unity speeches sound slightly hypocritical), was still being threshed out. Not until 2 the next morning did Brazilian Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha, making his final attempt to please everyone, order up punch, beer, assorted fruit juices and highballs for the five key diplomats who had argued, orated, threatened, compromised and finally agreed after a four-hour session in his private office...