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Last week Brazil was watching these Japanese settlers with more than usual suspicion. In recent weeks there had been an epidemic of fires in the Amazon rubber regions, enough to cause Governor Alvaro Maia of Amazonas State to make a trip to the Purús Valley district to investigate. The first fires were caused by settlers burning brush and seemed purely accidental; Brazilians and Japanese together put them out. But from then on the conflagrations grew in number and seriousness. Recently fires broke out in the highland regions of the western rivers, where some of Brazil's best...
...valley of the Amazon, in the region of the Purús River, a colony of Japanese settled some 20 years ago with money from their government to start a jute industry. Jute proved a failure, so the settlers switched to rice. When rice did not pay off, they planted pepper, clearing large areas of the jungle. Suspicious minds thought they might be preparing airfields for an attack on the Panama Canal. The outbreak of World War II found some 20,000 Japanese scattered over some 2,700 square miles of the Amazon basin. In the course of the first...
...Above all, while we could quickly cut down pur program, it would be utterly impossible to improvise troops on short notice. A year or more is required to build fighting divisions...
Said General Wood with undeniable truth: "Each step thus far taken in the international situation has been upon the solemn assurance that it was for the pur pose of preserving peace. Actually, we have been led to the brink of a devastating war. . . . This subterfuge must end. We must now squarely face the real issue, war or peace...
Pierre van Paassen understands that the dilemma of pur time, which enabled the Nazis to take power, which still keeps the democracies from fully effective action, is caused by the ideological bankruptcy of the right no more and no less than by the moral bankruptcy of the left. He seeks to by-pass this dilemma by an appeal to conscience, and the force of his fervors lies in part in this simplification. For as a social seer he is really only asking a question. It is as old as Adam and still unanswerable: "Where is thy brother Abel...