Word: paulo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the 300,000 Japanese of Sao Paulo, Brazil, refused to believe that the war is over and that their side lost. It was the strange mission of tall, spare Father Hugo Lassalle, S.J., to convince them...
...TIME, Aug. 26, 1946). Merchants who told the truth were boycotted; at least 14 "rumor spreaders" were said to have been murdered. Even letters from home were denounced as a Yankee trick. Some stubbornly believed that the Emperor of Japan would soon become Emperor of the world. Meanwhile, Sao Paulo swindlers cleaned up selling passage on non-existent ships to new non-existent Japanese colonies...
...scholarship to visit the U.S. in 1942, he said: "I will consider my trip really useful if I can help make Brazil known and understood by the North American public." Handsome Author Tavares never returned to his job as professor of biology at the University of São Paulo. Discovering that "in Latin American matters, the ignorance of the North American is astonishing," he set about the job of informing the U.S., at least about Brazil. In five years he has visited 38 states, lectured at 75 U.S. universities and colleges...
...third of the rural population has malaria, a fifth hookworm. In Rio and São Paulo the prevalence of syphilis and tuberculosis is even higher...
...says. He tells his readers of the west, where a League of Nations commission once said a population of 900,000,000 could support itself; of Volta Redonda, South America's biggest steel mill, and of the continent's fastest growing industrial city at São Paulo. Drawing on the studies of Brazil's social anthropologist, Gilberto Freyre, he shows that "there is less racial discrimination in Brazil than in any other country in the world." By inheritance, says Tavares, the Brazilians, with a rich land, a million unclaimed opportunities, and a unique cultural, religious & racial...