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...ultimate goal of all this activity seemed to be the same as General Bruno's efforts: an army which would operate within the country while the Axis invaded from across the South Atlantic. Spy-busting Major Olinto Franca Almeida y Sa,* Police Chief of the State of Sao Paulo, said the Nazi plan was to invade by air last May. The plot was uncovered when the police intercepted a Nazi agent's message. Only the fact that Russia upset the German timetable, guessed the Major, prevented the plot from being carried...
...gasoline. Though approximately 70% of all shipping from the U.S. to South America's east coast is carrying coal as cargo, Brazil gets only a fraction of her needs. Tankers seldom visit her ports. No private automobiles ride the once busy streets of Rio and Sao Paulo, bus schedules have been slashed, many vital rail services are cut by half, other routes suspended. Even wood-burning steamers plowing the muddy Amazon River to Manaos are stopped: the woodcutters have slipped into the jungles to gather rubber for better pay. In Andean-wrinkled Chile and Peru where railroads...
Reason for this turnabout: it is safer and easier to ship coffee 1,600 miles from Colombia to New Orleans than 6,000 miles up the Atlantic from Rio. But Brazil will not be the loser. Brazilian bigwigs in São Paulo last week announced that the Good-Neighborly U.S. would buy up all Brazilian coffee not shipped by September's end. That will give Brazil a credit of over $25,000,000 on U.S. banks and give the U.S. a credit of perhaps 2,000,000 bags in Brazilian warehouses...
...hopped frantically up & down the coast, Japs & more Japs kept turning up, equipped with everything from illegal radio transmitters to detailed maps of Brazil's shoreline. One raid unearthed an arsenal of 400,000 rifle cartridges, a lot of automatic riot rifles. Another raid at São Paulo deprived the Japs of 42 high-powered speedboats. The most sinister Jap enterprise discovered was the outfitting of a small port near Jaquiá, about 90 miles southwest of Santos, with gasoline stores and a special dock suitable for submarines. Although no Axis subs have yet appeared in Brazilian waters...
There are no commercial networks in Brazil. But eleven independent stations in Rio and eleven in São Paulo are linked by telephone wires, and all 89 Brazilian stations can pick up and rebroadcast programs transmitted over Brazil's powerful short-wave stations. For years all stations have been required either to go off the air or to take the Government program, Hora do Brasil (sometimes known among jesting Brasileiros as the Hora do Silencio...