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...Appointed scholarly Career Diplomat Herschel V. Johnson, former member of the U.S. delegation to the U.N., as Ambassador to Brazil to succeed William D. Pawley (see LATIN AMERICA...
...second floor of the palatial U.S. Embassy in Rio de Janeiro last week, the spacious, air-conditioned ambassador's office was being readied for a new tenant. Earnest, dynamic William D. Pawley, who resigned as ambassador last month, had checked out-private airplane and all. To fill the $25,000-a-year job, President Truman had picked 53-year-old Career Diplomat Herschel Vespasian Johnson...
While waiting for Johnson, Brazilians had time to appraise their two-year exposure to Bill Pawley. The millionaire go-getter, who often invited 750 guests for cocktails, had shown Brazil how a jet-propelled American does business. At work and at play he had talked fast-Brazilians sometimes thought too fast-to sell his ideas. He wanted to raise the level of life of 47,000,000 Brazilians which could easily be done from Brazil's own resources. He wanted to open Brazil's potential oilfields to U.S. capital. He wanted to see Brazil's rickety transportation...
That was a big program to sell to Washington in the six weeks before Bogotá. Bill Pawley thought he could...
Even such sums, spent for agriculture, would probably not satisfy the Latin Americans, who also want dollars to help them build industry. In preparation for Bogota, therefore, Bill Pawley hoped to sell the U.S. State Department the Colombian scheme for a U.S.-financed Inter-American bank to make hemispheric-development loans...