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...seriously America's club women are taking their job of keeping posted on the difficult, personally important news of these critical times. One typical day last week her mail brought (among many others) calls for TIME clips on the interdependence of the United States and her Pan-American neighbors . . . post-war reconstruction . . . the importance of a unified Army and Navy command . . . recent developments in plastics and synthetics...
...said Mauricio Nabuco, Secretary-general of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, at last January's Rio conference. Last week Pan-American unity got its biggest tangible boost in World War II when Brazil became the first South American country formally to declare war on Germany and Italy.* (Japan having committed no aggression against Brazil, was omitted from the declaration...
...total Pan-American unity the meaning of Brazil's belligerency in World War II may still be dubious. But to a U.S. engaged in global war it was reassurance that the power of a trustworthy friend would embrace half the South American continent. In a message to President Vargas, President Roosevelt said: "I express to Your Excellency the profound emotion with which [Brazil's] courageous action has been received in this country. ... It adds power and strength, moral and material, to the armies of liberty...
Since last Saturday, the American press has rejoiced over the entry of Brazil into the war. Nearly every newspaper in the nation has pointed out the importance of such a declaration by a South American country, and the Sunday supplements have been crammed with statistics on the Brazilian Army and Navy. Actually it would appear that the immediate military effects of Brazilian belligerency are negligible compared with the long run effects of Pan-American unity...
Brazil's army of a maximum of 285,000 men is ill-equipped and, by European standards, poorly trained. Its wartime task is well-nigh insuperable, for it has the responsibility of guarding the longest Atlantic coastline of any Pan-American nation. For 2,000 miles, from Belem to Rio de Janeiro, there is not a single inch of railroad track, and highway facilities are very poorly developed. All traffic of any large dimensions must move either by coast-wise steamer or by slow portage over inland rivers...