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Japanese officers disguised as fishermen had plotted to seize São Paulo State. Brazilian forces would be attacked by 25,000 local, secretly trained Japanese troops using anti-tank guns and artillery imported as agricultural machinery. On farms and in fishing villages, air and submarine bases were ready for a supporting invasion. Among the Jap dentists in Brazil was a General. Among the tomato growers was a onetime Jap Finance Minister...
...Brazilian state police arrested 16 booted Storm Troopers in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, where German secret societies were driven underground in 1937. In the state of São Paulo a mob lynched a Japanese who ran amuck upon learning Japanese bank funds were frozen. Other Japs, heavily armed, revolted, were put down by a cavalry regiment and state troops...
...Sept. 7, 1822, at Ypiranga near Sao Paulo, Brazil's Prince Regent Pedro received a batch of dispatches from Portugal telling of oppressive measures planned for the colony. Then & there Prince Pedro uttered what Brazilians now call the Grito de Ypiranga: "Independence or death!" He revolted against his father the Emperor, declared Brazil independent, became its first monarch, Dom Pedro I. Although Brazil later overthrew his son, Dom Pedro II, and became a republic, Brazilians this week celebrated the 119th anniversary of their independence with as little animosity toward Portugal as U.S. citizens now feel toward Great Britain...
This week a pilot plant at São Paulo was ready (except for a chemical solvent which must be obtained from the U.S.) to start converting 50,000 bags of coffee a year into cafelite. About to be built, possibly with Export-Import Bank funds, is a $3,500,000 main plant which will consume 5,000,000 bags of coffee a year, produce 350,000,000 lb. of cafelite. Current world production of plastics powders is 500,000,000-750,000,000 lb. a year...
...Paulo, Brazil...